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North American Indian Drama
brings together the full text of
172 plays representing the stories and creative energies
of American Indian and First Nation playwrights of the
twentieth century. Many of the plays are previously
unpublished or hard to find, and they represent a wealth
of dramatic material that is often overlooked or
inaccessible.
North American Indian Drama
begins in the early 1930s with The Cherokee Night and
other works by R. Lynn Riggs, the first American Indian
playwright to have his works produced. It progresses
through the 20th century with plays produced by the
Native American Theatre Ensemble (NATE) and other
companies of the 1970s and 1980s, including Spiderwoman
Theater, the longest continually running Native American
or women’s theatre group in North America.
The
collection represents groups across the United States
and Canada , including Cherokee, Métis, Creek, Choctaw,
Pembina Chippewa, Ojibway, Hawaiian/Samoan, Comanche,
Cree, Navajo, Rappahannock , and others.
Users can browse the collection by title, playwright,
tribe, production, production company, character, year,
and date. Full-text searching is refined by the author’s
tribe, birth and death dates, gender, age when writing;
the play’s number of characters, setting, number of
acts, year written or produced; and many other fields.
You may access
North American Indian Drama
from anywhere
with a valid APSU ID.
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