Robert Dale Parker, ed. The Sounds the Stars make Rushing through the Sky: The Writings of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft. Robert Dale Parker, ed. Changing is not Vanishing: A Collection of Early American Indian Poetry to 1930.

Robert Dale Parker’s The Invention of Native American Literature (Cornell UP, 2003) finishes with a chapter examining the ways that American Indian writing enters the wider canon of American literatures. He pays close attention to the material conditions that underpin the selection of texts in anthologies and for university courses, noting that the process too often ends up in a choice of texts based on a conscious desire to “represent” – this text to represent modernist technique, that one...