Review of \u3ci\u3eListening to the Land: Native American Literary Responses to the Landscape\u3c/i\u3e By Lee Schweninger

In Listening to the Land, Lee Schweninger demonstrates a Native American connection to Mother Earth to be a prevailing stereotype in cultural representations of Indigenous peoples in literature, television, and film. While refusing to dismiss an indigenous relationship to, appreciation for, awareness of, or understanding of the land that is significantly different from non-Indian relationships, Schweninger analyzes the complicated portrayal of the landscape in Native American literature in the context of this stereotype, which he calls the Land Ethic Stereotype, the framework with which he begins his study of a wide range of twentieth-century Native writers from a number of Native nations