Listening to the Land: Native American Literary Responses to the Landscape

Schweninger also finds, however, that Native people and writers do have a long-standing and unique relationship with place different from that of European Americans. Because many Native American writers do assert a land ethic, Schweninger argues that literary scholars must address "how knowledge of the stereotype helps one better read and more fully respond to those Native American authors who do profess an ethical relationship with the earth both in fiction and nonfiction" (10).