Abstract
Although I first met LaVonne Ruoff in 1977 at the Flagstaff NEH/ MLA Summer Seminar on American Indian Literatures, one of my strongest early memories of is from 1982 at the Yale Institute on Reconstructing American Literature. She appeared as an expert on American Indian literatures backed by bibliographies and a dog eared copy of Jack W. Marken s The American Indian: Language and Literature (1978), which she held aloft and called her Less than ten years later anyone who was serious about promoting American Indian literatures was toting around a dog-eared copy of LaVonne's American Indian Literatures (1990). For these converts that book was their bible.
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