The Portable North American Indian Reader

Edited by Frederick W. Turner

Myths, tales, poems and speeches from many Native nations, alongside the story of first contact.

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Frederick W. Turner compiles myths, tales, poetry and oratory from the Iroquois, Cherokee, Winnebago, Sioux, Blackfeet, Hopi and many other nations. He adds culture-contact writing such as explorers' accounts, captivity narratives and Native autobiographies, a section on images of Native people in white literature, and modern reassessments by writers including Luther Standing Bear, N. Scott Momaday, Vine Deloria Jr. and James Welch.

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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--explorers' 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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