Category Archives: The Red Man

Cultural and Historical Context

Emma Newashe was a member of the Sac and Fox tribe in Oklahoma. The Sac and Fox tribe, also natively called the Sauk and Fox tribe, used to be two separate tribes until they were forced to combine due to … Continue reading

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Biography

Emma Suzanne Newashe was born in 1892 on the Shawnee Reservation in Oklahoma. Her parents were both Native American: her father, John Nahaoshe, Sac and Fox member, and her mother,  Susan “Waw-paw-que” Clark, Shawnee member. Both Emma and her brother, … Continue reading

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Further Reading

Further Reading Ballinger, Franchot. “Living Sideways: Social Themes and Social Relationships in Native American Trickster Tales.” American Indian Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 1, 1989, pp. 15–30., www.jstor.org/stable/1184084. Bastian, Dawn E., and Judy K. Mitchell. Handbook of Native American Mythology.  Oxford: … Continue reading

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Critical Commentary

Critical Commentary The legend “The Coyote and the Wind”, published in the January 1913 edition of “The Red Man”, was written by Caleb Carter, a member of the Nez Perce tribe and the Carlisle Indian School graduating class of 1912. … Continue reading

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Historical and Cultural Context

Historical and Cultural Context Caleb Carter, author of the legend “The Coyote and the Wind”, which was published in The Red Man in 1913, was a member of the Nez Perce. Nez Perce tribe originally lived in parts of southeast … Continue reading

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Biography

Biography Caleb Carter, born March 16th, 1888, was a member of the Nez Perce tribe and the author of “The Coyote and the Wind” in the January 1913 publication of “The Red Man”. Throughout his life Carter lived in Idaho, … Continue reading

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Caleb Carter (Nez Perce)

Biography | Historical and Cultural Context | Critical Commentary | Further Readings “The Coyote and the Wind” Caleb Carter, Nez Perce The coyote, once upon a time, made himself a dwelling place out of tall bunch grass. It was in … Continue reading

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