Description: An autobiographical account of tribal and family life on New York State's Tuscarora Reservation by the son of a medicine man, now a crane operator and artist.
Review Quotes: The best modern work of Indian literature, a rough-edged, brilliant, diamond of a book. . . . He introduces us, story by story, to people who by the strokes of his depiction elicit our concern and love. Then, in a stirring recreation of ritual activity, he binds them together as a community. And then, without the slightest hint of self-pity, he demonstrates the effects of American ways on this community of beloved people.-- "Cross Currents"