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The Portable North American Indian Reader
The Portable North American Indian Reader
Author: Frederick W. Turner
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ISBN-13: 9780140150773
ISBN-10: 0140150773
Publication Date: 10/27/1977
Pages: 640
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Publisher: Penguin / Viking Portable Library
Book Type: Paperback
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missgwhiz avatar reviewed The Portable North American Indian Reader on + 186 more book reviews
this book has alot of good information about the native american people.a good reader.
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The Portable North American Indian Reader compiles myths, tales, poetry and oratory from the Iroquois, Cherokee, Winnebago, Sioux, Blackfeet, Hopi and many other tribes. In addition, Frederick Turner includes a number of "culture contact" selections--explorer's accounts, captives' narratives, and Indian autobiographies--as well as a section on the conflicting popular images of the Indian in white literature and, finally, contemporary reassessments by such writers as Luther Standing Bear, N. Scott Momaday, Vine Deloria, Jr. James Welch, Simon Ortiz, and Gary Snyder.
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Different cover than the one shown. Myths, tales, poetry and oratory by North American Indians of the Iroquois, Gherokee, Winnebago, Sioux, Blackfeet, Hop, and many other tribes. Accounts of Indian life by white observers from Bernal Diaz to Francis Parkman. Contemporary reassessments by such writers as Luther Standing bear, N. Scott Momaday, Vine Deloria, Jr., Thomas Berger and Gary Snyder.