Portable North American Indian Reader

<i>The Portable North American Indian Reader</i> 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.