Immigration and acculturation : summer seminar for high school teachers ; literature and ecology on the Great Plains ; June 26-30, 1995 ; Wichita State University ; Dr. Diane Quantic, instructor.
Some of the texts used in teaching the seminar, photocopied two pages to a page from original sources with pages hand-numbered.
Contents
Peter / Willa Cather -- Land of opportunity / Ray Allen Billington -- Selection from The emigrants / Johan Bojer -- A Swedish emigrant's story: Axel Jarlson -- A gravestone made of wheat / Will Weaver -- What the waving grass revealed / O.E. Rolvaag -- To survive with the help of his hands / Vilhelm Moberg -- Selection from Take all to Nebraska / Sophus Keith Winther -- The Christmas of the phonograph record / Mari Sandoz -- The trip / Mela Meisner Lindsay -- Messages from my father / Calvin Trillin -- Kansas, black on white / Robert G. Athearn -- Prejudice and settlement as viewed through African American writers of the plains / Connie R. Schomburg -- The big red apples ; The land of red apples ; The cutting of my long hair ; The snow episode / Zitkala-Sa -- Hard riding / D'Arcy McNickle -- Wood louse sun ; Skeleton winter / Louise Erdrich.
