Bob Blaisdell 
Great Short Stories by Contemporary Native American Writers 

"First time I’ve read a collection from Native American Writers. Won’t be my last. Important collection that examines the contrast and sometimes conflict between Whites and Native Americans and also conflicts between full-blood and half-blood. Very interesting and enlightening. Loved it!" — Book Bunny PRThis new anthology of short fiction by Native Americans features a wide range of contemporary writers. It includes stories dating from the early twentieth century by Pauline Johnson, daughter of a Mohawk chief, whose works helped define Canadian literature; Zitkala-Sa, a Sioux writer whose books were among the first to bring Native American stories to wider recognition; John M. Oskison, whose Cherokee ancestry informed his tales of the cultural clash faced by children of mixed marriages; and D’Arcy Mc Nickle, Cree activist and anthropologist.Ten additional stories date from the 1960s through the twenty-first century, ranging in their settings from Canada to New Mexico. Selections include Leslie Marmon Silko’s "The Man to Send Rain Clouds, " "Crow’s Sun" by Duane Niatum, "Beading Lesson" by Beth H. Piatote, Sherman Alexie’s "War Dances, " and other tales that explore cultural borders and intersections, dramatizing the ways in which people discover their own heritage as well as the wider world.