Wynema: A Child of the Forest

by S. Alice Callahan and Sophia Alice Callahan

Book Overview

Originally published in 1891, Wynema is the first novel known to have been written by a woman of American Indian descent. Set against the sweeping and often tragic cultural changes that affected southeastern native peoples during the late nineteenth century, it tells the story of a lifelong friendship between two women from vastly different backgrounds -- Wynema Harjo, a Muscogee Indian, and Genevieve Weir, a Methodist teacher from a genteel Southern...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803263783
• ISBN13: 9780803263789
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"