Accepted Here: Cash, Blood or Stories
type: CreativeWork
description: This paper explores the conceptions and representations of Native identity in a social and political context through the interpretations of Gerald Vizeonor’s, survivance and Stephen Graham Jone’s, Ledfeather. Native identity in the United States cannot be separated from the founding of the New World and the settlement of the West, like Native stories it is successive and continuous across generations. By interpreting the aesthetics of survivance, favoring presence over absence and utilizing dendrochronology and dendroclimatology it is possible to trace the presence of Native stories across time and space.
abstract: This paper explores the conceptions and representations of Native identity in a social and political context through the interpretations of Gerald Vizeonor’s, survivance and Stephen Graham Jone’s, Ledfeather. Native identity in the United States cannot be separated from the founding of the New World and the settlement of the West, like Native stories it is successive and continuous across generations. By interpreting the aesthetics of survivance, favoring presence over absence and utilizing dendrochronology and dendroclimatology it is possible to trace the presence of Native stories across time and space.
author: Fredricksen, Sierra D.
language: en
keywords: Creative writing, Fiction, Arts and Humanities, Native American Studies
date published: 2014-06-01T07:00:00Z
date modified: 2026-07-24T02:01:25Z
provider: University of Denver
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: University of Denver