Professor Nancy J. Peterson

Purdue University
Fall 2008

This page provides essential course information for Professor Peterson's students at Purdue University (or interested visitors) during the fall 2008 semester. 

  Course Description and Required Texts
 

  Assignments
                     

  Native Authors on the syllabus:

 

Thomas King and The Truth about Stories
Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony 

Diane Glancy, Pushing the Bear, and Cherokee History  

LeAnne Howe: Writer, Filmmaker, Storyteller
Louise Erdrich's The Bingo Palace   
Sherman Alexie's Ten Little Indians 

 

  Guest Speaker for September 11: Kevin Locke (Lakota-Anishinabe)

  Indian Humor is our final thematic cluster of the semester.

 

  Contemporary Native American Issues and Useful Websites
 
 



This page was last updated on 4 December  2008.  Direct questions/comments to Nancy J. Peterson.