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Paperback: 464 pages
Publisher: Visible Ink Press (1998)
Product Dimensions: 7-1/4 x 9-1/4 x 1 inches
ISBN: 1-57859-046-9
Condition: Very Good - (Contains Library Stamp)

Native North American

Literary Companion

Editor: Janet Witalec

Managing Editor: Joseph Bruchac

From Back Cover

More than a traditional anthology, Native North American Literary Companion presents excerpts of complete selections from Native writers along with extensive details on their lives and times. This collection features the work of contemporary Native writers both new and well-known, including:

Lame Deer:	Sioux medicine man and autobiographer

Joseph Bruchac:	Author of more than 30 books of poetry, fiction, folk tales and legends

Louise Erdrich:	Chippewa novelist, short story writer, poet and nonfiction writer (The beet Queen, Tracks, Love Medicine)

Thomas King:	A Cherokee humorist, his book A Coyote Columbus Story won a Governor General's Award, Canada's most prestigious literary prize

N. Scott Momaday:	His novel House Made of Dawn was the first work by a Native American to win the Pulitzer Prize

Simon Ortiz:	An Acoma Pueblo and one of the most respected and widely read Native American writers

Leslie Marmon Silko:	One of the foremost writers of the Native American literary renaissance of the 1970s