Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature
About This Book
1 Origin Myth of the Acoma Patricia Bostian Introduction For more than a millennium, the Acoma have lived in pueblo settlements on a mesa outside of Albuquerque, New Mexico. However, like many Indian people, they suffered at the hands of Spanish conquerors, enslaved and succumbing to smallpox, among other infectious diseases. They also periodically fought with Apache, Comanche, and Ute who raided their community. Forced to adopt Roman Catholicism by the Spanish, they combined elements of their b
| Category | general |
|---|---|
| Subject | N/A |
| Year | 2023 |
| Authors | |
| Chapters | 25 |
| Word Count | |
| Price | |
| License | Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Chapters
- 1 Origin Myth of the Acoma
- 2 The Popul Vuh
- 3 Mayan Chilam Balam
- 5 Seneca Creation Myths
- 8 Bartolome De Las Casas (1484 – 1566)
- 10 The Requerimiento (1513)
- Thou ill-form'd offspring of my feeble brain, Who after birth did'st by my side
- 20 Cotton Mather (1663-1728)
- 22 Elizabeth Ashbridge (1713-1755)
- 29 Hugh Henry Brackenridge (1748-1816)
- 30 Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820)
- 31 Philip Freneau (1752-1832)
- 33 John Marrant (1755-1791)
- 35 The Federalist (1787-1788): Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay
- 38 Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810)
- 49 Joseph Smith Jr., The Book of Mormon (1830)
- 61 John Muir (1838-1914)
- 62 Ambrose Bierce (1842–c1914)
- 63 Ambrose Bierce (1846-c.1914)
- 65 Kate Chopin (1850-1904)
- 66 Charles Chesnutt (1858-1932)
- 67 Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)
- 68 Sui Sin Far (Edith Maude Eaton) (1865-1914)
- 69 S. Alice Callahan (1868-1894)
- 72 Zitkala-Sa (1876-1938)