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- ↑ Womack, Craig S. (1999). Red on red : Native American literary separatism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 0-8166-3022-4. OCLC 41977152.
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- ↑ "Native Americans and jazz on literature professor's beat". Emory University . Retrieved 2023-08-02.
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