Constructions and contestations of the authoritative voice: Native American communities and the Federal Writers' Project, 1935-41.

In 1941, as the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) was coming to an end in many parts of the country, a new project began at the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation. Two tribal members, Fred Gone and Mark "Rex" Flying, from the Gros Ventre and Assiniboine communities respectively, began collecting historical narratives and traditional stories from tribal elders for the Montana Writers' Program.

(1) Intended for publication for a general audience, both men looked upon the project as an opportunity to write the history of their own community and to correct what they perceived as ...

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