Native American Renaissance

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cultural movement literary movement

The Native American Renaissance was a late 20th-century literary movement marked by a surge of works by Indigenous authors in the United States that foregrounded Native histories, cultures, and identities within contemporary American literature.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	cultural movement → literary movement →
emphasizes	community responsibility of the writer → continuity of Indigenous literary traditions → interweaving of oral and written forms → political dimensions of storytelling → tribal-specific worldviews →
focusesOn	Native American cultures → Native American histories → Native American identities →
hasCriticalConcept	mixedblood identity → survivance → tribalography →
hasCulturalContext	Indigenous literatures of the United States → Native American literature →
hasDebatedAspect	inclusion of earlier Native writers → periodization of Native American literature → relationship to oral traditions → role of non-Native publishers and audiences → use of the term "renaissance" →
hasInfluenceOn	Indigenous studies → environmental humanities → ethnic American literatures → mainstream American literature → postcolonial studies →
hasInfluentialEvent	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction awarded to House Made of Dawn in 1969 → growth of Native-owned presses and journals → increased university courses on Native American literature in the 1970s → publication of House Made of Dawn in 1968 → rise of Native American studies programs →
hasInfluentialWork	Ceremony → Custer Died for Your Sins → Fools Crow → House Made of Dawn → Love Medicine → Mean Spirit → She Had Some Horses → Storyteller → The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven → The Man to Send Rain Clouds → The Way to Rainy Mountain → Tracks → Winter in the Blood →
hasKeyGenre	autobiography → drama → essay → literary criticism → memoir → novel → poetry → short story →
hasKeyTheme	cultural survival → decolonization → environmental justice → historical trauma → identity and hybridity → land and place → language revitalization → oral tradition and storytelling → reclamation of Indigenous voice → representation of Native women → resistance to assimilation → spirituality and ceremony → tribal sovereignty →
hasLanguage	English → Native American languages →
hasMainRegion	United States →
hasNotableAuthor	Diane Glancy → Gerald Vizenor → James Welch → Janet Campbell Hale → Joy Harjo → Leslie Marmon Silko → Linda Hogan → Louise Erdrich → N. Scott Momaday → Paula Gunn Allen → Scott Momaday → Sherman Alexie → Simon J. Ortiz → Thomas King →
hasStartPeriodApprox	early 1970s → late 1960s →
hasTimePeriod	late 20th century →
isAssociatedWithMovement	Red Power movement → civil rights era →
isPartOf	contemporary American literature →

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Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
American literature →	hasMovement