William Apess (1798-1839)was the first Native American to write and publish his own autobiography, A Son in the Forest, and was the most prolific nineteenth century Indian writer in the English langua...
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William Apess's ordination as a minister in the Protestant Methodist Church preceded by only a few months the publication of his A Son of the Forest (1829), the first published autobiography -- and on...
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One of the most important Native American writers of the nineteenth century, William Apess has only recently begun to emerge from historical and literary obscurity. His autobiography, A Son of the For...
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William Apess
William Apess