Scholars who once thought Native American literatures were solely oral narratives recorded by missionaries or anthropologists now understand this body of work to consist of both oral literatures and the written works of Native American authors, who have been publishing since 1772.
Scholars who once thought Native American literatures were solely oral narratives recorded by missionaries or anthropologists now understand this body of work to consist of both oral literatures and the written works of Native American authors, who have been publishing since 1772.
Scholars who once thought Native American literatures were solely oral narratives
Scholars thinking of Native American literatures once solely as oral narratives, and
Scholars who once had thought of Native American literatures solely as oral narratives and
Native American literatures, which some scholars once thought were solely oral narratives
Native American literatures, which some scholars once, thinking they were solely oral narratives
1. You always need a past tense to have a past perfect, to indicate the latter event happened before the former one. There's no "did" in this sentence. 2. Literatures here ARE oral narratives. Note: this work consists of both oral literature (narratives) and...