Abstract:Out of the Cupboard and into the Classroom: Children and the American Indian Literary ExperienceAt the impressionable age of thirteen, alone and far from my home in North Carolina, while working a summer job in Oklahoma City, I was captured by Indians! Although I hated to admit it, and even denied it, to these people it was easy to see that I suffered from acute loneliness and homesickness. In the tradition of the Ponca American Indian tribe, members of the Conklin family noticed I was in need and invited me t… Show more
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