In case you wondered …

… NATIVE AMERICAN WRITING TODAY.  (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

The clearance of the prairies — quite parallel to the clearance of the British peasants in order to raise sheep — was recent enough for troves of correspondence to still exist, waiting to be organized and sometimes to be translated. The Jesuits alone generated whole libraries of material back to Rome, the headquarters of bureaucracy. Hudson’s Bay has now opened their archives. Few writers are determined enough to take on this material, but they are vital books.