Wynema, a Child of the Forest was a historical novel by American (Muscogee) author, Sophia Alice Callahan. It is the first novel by a Native American woman in the U.S. The novel follows Wynema, a young Muscogee girl, who, like Callahan, becomes educated in English and teaches at a mission school. She is shown marrying the brother of her friend, a white teacher. She has a child with him, but after Wounded Knee, also adopts a Lakota infant girl.
Sophia Alice Callahan (1 January 1868 - 7 January 1894) was a novelist and teacher of Muscogee heritage. Her novel, Wynema, a Child of the Forest (1891) is thought 'to be the first novel written by a Native American woman. |
