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American Book Award winner Maurice Kenny has long been a major voice in Native American literature. In this collection, he writes of such little-known and controversial issues as the gay tradition in Native American history and looks at how his Mohawk background has impacted on his own writing.--Pub...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kenny, Maurice, 1929-2016 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Fredonia, N.Y. : White Pine Press, [1997]
Subjects:
Indians of North America > Biography.
Indians of North America > Social conditions.
Indians of North America > Folklore.
Two-spirit people.
Indians in literature.
Indians of North America.
Creative nonfiction.
Biographies.
Folklore.
Table of Contents:
  • Tinseled bucks : an historical study in Indian homosexuality
  • Black Charlotte
  • Yellow Wolf : the Indian who would farm
  • The murder of Jack Smith
  • Roman Nose, Cheyenne : a brief biography
  • Native American oral tradition
  • Whitman's indifference to Indians
  • Not to forget
  • The quest : a meditation on nature and monuments
  • Waiting at the edge
  • A Mohawk poet on the road
  • Tremolo.