UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK
AMERICAN NATIVE PRESS ARCHIVES
WILLIAM OANDASAN COLLECTION
ANPA MSS 010
Last
updated: February 2003
EXTENT
Total Boxes:
1
Other Storage Formats: None
Linear Feet: 0.33
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Provenance
Gift from
Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr., 1996
Ownership
and Literary Rights
The William
Oandasan Collection is the physical property of the American
Native Press Archives, University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or
their legal heirs and assigns. For further information,
consult the appropriate curator.
Restrictions
on Access
The William
Oandasan Collection is open for research.
Citation
Format
William
Oandasan Collection.
American Native Press Archives.
HISTORICAL NOTE
William
Oandasan (1947-1992) was born on the Round Valley Reservation in
Northern California, to Yuki and Pilipino parents. He
founded the A Press in 1976 and edited A: A Journal of
Contemporary Literature, one of the first literary magazines
devoted to American Indian writers..
He was a poet, journalist, editor and publisher. He was
author of a number of works, including Taking Off (1976),
Earth & Sky (1976), Sermon & Three Waves (1978),
A Branch of California Redwood (1980), Moving Inland
(1983), Round Valley Songs (1984), Round Valley Verses
(1987), and Summer Night (1989). His Round
Valley Songs won the American Books Award from the Before
Columbus Foundation. .
DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION
The William
Oandasan Collection contains works of poetry and prose by Oandasan;
copies of A; works edited by him as well as works by other
American and non-Indian writers published by A Press; and
miscellaneous materials related to his career. Materials
cover the period 1976-1987.. For
other works by Oandasan see the ANPA Library holdings; for his
correspondence see the Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr. Collection.
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Box |
Folder
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Oandasan’s Writings |
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1 |
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"In a Drop
of Dew” Encore
Quarterly of Verse 1976.
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“Bibliography of the Tribes of
the Covelo Indian Community.” 1980
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Moving Inland: a cycle of lyrics
Autographed copy. 1983
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“Poems Beside the Pacific.” 1985
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“Simon Ortiz: The Poet and His Landscape.”
Typescript. December. 28, 1986
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Round Valley
Verses.
Autographed copy. 1987
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“Long Ago Black Bears.”
Card. Illustrated. Undated
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A Press
Publications |
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A: Journal of Contemporary Literature.
Vol. 1. No. 1.
Fall 1976
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A: Journal of Contemporary Literature.
Vol. 2. No. 2.
Fall 1977. [Oandasan’s
work, p.13]
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A: Journal of Contemporary Literature.
Vol. 4.
No. 1. Spring 1979. [Oandasan’s work,
pp.26-32]
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A:
Journal of Contemporary Literature.
Vol. 4. No. 2. Fall 1979. [Oandasan’s work
pp.1, 29-34, 42-44]
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Niatum, Duane. To Bridge The Dream. 1978
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Lignell, Kathleen. Calamity Jane Poems.1981
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Ronan, Richard, and Bill Rancitelli. A Lamp of Small
Sorrow: Four Fu Poems. 1979
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Chicago Uptown Indian Poetry Anthology,
1982. [Oandasan’s work p.12-13]
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Mackie, James. Passages. 1982
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Miscellaneous |
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Promotional sheet for A Branch of California
Redwood
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Littlefield, Daniel F., Jr. “Response to ‘Simon Ortiz:
The Poet and His Landscape’
by W. Oandasan,” December 28, 1986
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Heeger, Susan. “Claiming a Place for Ethnic
Literature,” Los Angeles Times. May 1, 1987.
Newspaper clipping. Photocopy.
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02/20/03
Prepared by Tamera Williams-Long
