Thursday, September 19, 2013
Writing about Indians When You're Not One
I few months ago I decided to write a blog for Western Fictioneers about the pitfalls of non-American Indians writing about a culture very different from their own. It has turned into a series, with four installments so far. Just in case you don't follow that blog, I've decided to provide an archive of the articles here.
Part One: Kinship
Part Two: Balance
Part Three: Indians Are People
Part Four: Leadership
Part Five: Property
Part Six: Gender
Part Seven: Space and Time
Troy D. Smith was born in the Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee in 1968. He has waxed floors, moved furniture, been a lay preacher, and taught high school and college. He writes in a variety of genres, achieving his earliest successes with westerns -his first published short story appeared in 1995 in Louis L'Amour Western Magazine, and he won the Spur Award in 2001 for the novel Bound for the Promise-Land (being a finalist on two other occasions.) He received his PhD in history from the University of Illinois, and is currently teaching history at Tennessee Tech.
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