Wynema: A Child of the Forest

Title: Wynema: A Child of the Forest
Author: S Alice Callahan
Fiction: 1705368
ISBN: 9780803263789
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 1997
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reprint
Number of Pages: 120
Section: Fiction | Literary
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Publisher Description:

Originally published in 1891, Wynema is the first novel known to have been written by a woman of American Indian descent.

Set against the sweeping and often tragic cultural changes that affected southeastern native peoples during the late nineteenth century, it tells the story of a lifelong friendship between two women from vastly different backgrounds--Wynema Harjo, a Muscogee Indian, and Genevieve Weir, a Methodist teacher from a genteel Southern family. Both are firm believers in women's rights and Indian reform; both struggle to overcome prejudice and correct injustices between sexes and races.

Callahan uses the conventional traditions of a sentimental domestic romance to deliver an elegant plea for tolerance, equality, and reform.