Some help needed, specific theme.

[Winter]

A book that is by or about someone from an indigenous culture (Native Americans, Aboriginals, etc.)

This is the task. Is there any books among 1001 complete list that fits it? Someone knows?

[Winter]

No that doesn't look right. Is he or the character from an indigeous culture? LIke indians and such..aboriginals..

[Tom]

What about The Last of the Mohicans? I haven't read it so can't comment on if it's good

[J_BlueFlower]

Oroonoko? The first part of the book is in Afrika. Also the Native Americans plays a role.

Could Tarzan of the Apes count?

[[deleted user]]

???

[Sandi]

What about The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Written by Himself?

[Feliks]

Are ye joshin' me? Throw a stick into a bookstore and you can't help but hit a dozen.

House Made of Dawn
Pulitzer prize winner.

Portrait of an Artist with Twenty-Six Horses
William Eastlake's much-acclaimed Southwest indian trilogy

A Man of the People
Part of the famous trilogy.

A Question of Power

Cry, the Beloved Country

Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

Journey to Ixtlan

[Dee]

Feliks wrote: "Are ye joshin' me? Throw a stick into a bookstore and you can't help but hit a dozen.

House Made of Dawn
Pulitzer prize winner.

Portrait of an Artist with Twenty-Six Horses..."


Apart from A Question of Power and Cry, the Beloved Country, none of those are on the list, and Winter's request specifically asked for books from the list. There are two books by Chinua Achebe on the list; in addition to Arrow of God, which Ellen has mentioned, Things Fall Apart is also on the list.

[Jennifer W]

Cry, the Beloved Country was a good book, I've reread it.

Nervous Conditions is one of my favorite list books that I've read.

Petals of Blood by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o has always looked good, but I haven't gotten to it yet. He's got a couple other list books, too.

I don't know if it quite fits what you're looking for, but I've heard excellent things about A Town Like Alice

[Winter]

Wow I have actually read Things Fall Apart this year, would that count? I'm Norwegian and indegious ? Culture, I'm not quite sure what it means or I know the translation, but what type of cultures would count?

[Emily]

Ellen wrote: "???"
Perfectly fits the theme.

[Feliks]

David wrote: "none of those are on the list..."

But its somewhat ridiculous to adhere to a fuzzy, loosey-goosey "list-of-a-1000" when it comes to a question like the OP's. He's asking for real literature, not pop-lit like Stephen King. Any serious list which doesn't include Pulitzer-winning titles (like Momaday's) ought to be diverted from, and sharply! At some point you have to remember what the true purpose is here: and not simply let pundits take over our communal search for the best in world fiction. We ought'nt drop our faculty for critical thinking simply because some newspaper somewhere ran a contest.

[Jennifer W]

Feliks wrote: "David wrote: "none of those are on the list..."

But its somewhat ridiculous to adhere to some fuzzy, loosey-goosey list when it comes to a question like the OP's. He's asking for real literature, ..."

While I completely agree that there's a ton of fabulous literature out there that is not on the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die list, and very few Pulitzer winners seem to be on the list, that is the entire point of this group, to read the books that were selected as the works that best illustrate the novel over history. I certainly don't stick to the list exclusively, and I certainly don't agree with all the selections, but my goal is to read as many of the books as I can in the hopes that I will have expanded my reading experiences as a result.

[Winter]

This is the 1001 books group. Why I (she not he :) ) read lots of other books too, when I ask in this group its always for listbooks unless said otherwise.

I do like Stephen King verymuch though, so I wouldn't quite agree on that point.

Thanks for lots of suggestions!!:)

[Nicola]

Cry, the Beloved Country is a fantastic book, although of course tastes do differ.

[Cynthia]

Louise Erdrich has Love Medicine on the list. She's a member of the Ojibwa nation and writes on Native American themes.