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Growing up Native American : an anthology / edited and with an introduction by Patricia Riley ; foreword by Inés Hernandez.

1st ed.

New York : Morrow, ©1993.

333 pages ; 25 cm

"22 Native American writers, from the nineteenth century to the 1990s, write in fiction and essay about childhood. Black Elk, Leslie Marmon Silko, Michael Dorris, Louise Erdrich, N. Scott Momaday, Linda Hogan, Basil Johnston, and many more"--Cover.

Indian children -- North America.

Indians of North America -- Ethnic identity.

American literature -- Indian authors.

Literature.

Riley, Patricia, 1950-

Includes bibliographical references.

Language we know / Simon Ortiz -- Warriors / Anna Lee Walters -- From waterlily / Ella Cara Deloria -- From life among the Piutes / Sara Winnemucca Hopkins -- Ni-Bo-Wi-Se-Gwe / Ignatia Broker -- Wasichus in the hills / Black Elk as told to John G. Neihardt -- At last I kill a buffalo / Luther Standing Bear -- From the middle five : Indian schoolboys of the Omaha tribe / Francis La Flesche -- From Lame Deer : Seeker of visions / Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes -- From love medicine / Louise Erdrich -- Day in the life of Spanish / Basil Johnston -- From sundown / John Joseph Mathews -- From mean spirit / Linda Hogan -- From the names : Memoir / N. Scott Momaday -- Notes of a translator's son / Joseph Bruchac -- Turbulent childhood / Lee Maracle -- Talking that trees does / Geary Hobson -- Water witch / Louis Owens -- Grace / Vicki L. Sears -- Uncle Tony's goat / Leslie Marmon Silko -- From yellow raft in blue water / Michael Dorris -- Ballad of plastic Fred / Eric L. Gansworth.

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