The Makings and Unmakings of Americans: Indians and Immigrants in American Literature and Culture, 1879-1924 dance People of the Whale is

People of the Whale is a powerful novel for our times from a writer who continues to take on the most difficult contemporary Native issues

and perhaps in the end discover what to "make of herself"

an eighty-year-old Lakota woman living in a log cabin with no running water

Generous notes on each poem offer insight into Harjo's inimitable poetics as she takes inspiration from Navajo horse songs and jazz

a young Diné poet born in 1991

The Makings and Unmakings of Americans: Indians and Immigrants in American Literature and Culture, 1879-1924 dance People of the Whale isChallenges the myth of the United States as a nation of immigrants by bringing together two groups rarely read together: Native Americans and Eastern European immigrants. In this cultural history of Americanization during the Progressive Era, Cristina Stanciu argues that new immigrants and Native Americans shaped the intellectual and cultural debates over inclusion and exclusion, challenging ideas of national belonging, citizenship, and literary and