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Blue dawn, red earth : new Native American storytellers / edited and with an introduction by Clifford E. Trafzer.

1st Anchor books ed.

New York : Anchor Books, 1996.

xv, 431 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Thirty stories by Native Americans on a variety of subjects. They range from Anita Endrezze's Darlene and the Dead Man, featuring an individual seeking death in the hope of being reborn a horse, to Eric I. Gansworth's The Raleigh Man, about Indians discriminating against poor white people.

Indians of North America -- Folklore.

Indians of North America -- Social life and customs.

Trafzer, Clifford E., editor, writer of introduction.

The witches of Eufaula, Oklahoma / Craig S. Womack -- Names / Lorne Simon -- Darlene and the dead man / Anita Endrezze -- The reapers / Jim Barnes -- Spirit curse / Annie Hansen -- What's in a song / Maurice Kenny -- Wisteria / Patricia Riley -- Sky burial / Richard Van Camp -- Midnight at the graveyard / Penny Olson -- Memekwesiw / Misha -- Cooking woman / E.K. Caldwell -- The Raleigh man / Eric L. Gansworth -- Bagattaway / Chris Fleet -- Growing things / Kimberly M. Blaeser -- Oshkiwiinag: heartlines on the trickster express / Gerald Vizenor -- So I blow smoke in her face / Laura Tobe -- Beets / Tiffany Midge -- The last rattlesnake throw / Ralph Salisbury -- Never again / D.L. Birchfield -- Talking things over with the boiler man / Duane Niatum -- A jingle for Silvy / Richard G. Green -- Roma and Julie: Indians in duality / Barnet Bush -- Rocking in the pink light / Gloria Bird -- El sol / Guadalupe J. Solis, Jr. -- The mystery of the white roses / Vee F. Browne -- A belated letter to Christopher Columbus / Georges E. Sioui -- The atsye parallel / Lee Francis -- Grampa Ramsey and the Great Canyon / Darryl "Babe" Wilson -- Looking for Hiawatha / Andrew Connors -- Dreamland / Jason B. Edwards.

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