FA: GROWING UP NATIVE AMERICAN

GROWING UP NATIVE AMERICAN
Riley, Patricia (editor): GROWING UP NATIVE AMERICAN: AN ANTHOLOGY

New York: Morrow, 1993. First edition.



From Publishers Weekly
Riley, a graduate student in ethnic studies at UC Berkeley, has gathered
more than 20 pieces (most previously published) about coming of age as an
Indian in North America by such well-known writers as Leslie Silko, N. Scott
Momaday, Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris. The material is diverse, ranging
from a 19th-century account of a boy's first buffalo hunt to modern-day
memoirs of childhoods scarred by poverty, racism and abuse. The collection
contains fiction and nonfiction from the U.S. and Canada, reflecting the
invisibility of these national borders to indigenous Americans. Cherokee
critic Geary Hobson provides a Faulkneresque excerpt from an unpublished
novel about intricate family ties among Indians in Arkansas, and Simon Ortiz
writes movingly about making the difficult transition from his native Acoma
language to English, but the best selection is from John Joseph Mathews's
underrated novel Sundown , which shows an Osage boy grappling with
Christianity in 1920s Oklahoma. Riley prefaces the selections with brief
introductions.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.



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