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Sitting Bull's savvy manipulation of his media image (he had an agent) and the author's own Comanche forebears

Krupat's close readings of these narratives provide cultural and historical context as well as critical commentary

When Nipishish is sent to a strange town to live with a white family and attend high school

Foreword by Wendell Berry

master thief and insatiable lover of the Southwest

Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings missing women Sitting Bull's savvy manipulation ofA long awaited poetry collection by one of our most essential Native American voices. In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human. Beginning in a hotel room in the dark of a distant city, we travel through history and follow the memory of the Trail of Tears from the bend in the Tallapoosa River to a place near the Arkansas River. Stomp dance songs, blues, and jazz ballads echo