Great Short Stories by Contemporary Native American Writers (Dover Thrift Editions: Short Stories)

It gives you a Native American perspective of snipits of their lives. Not moralistic like teepee style tales, just stories of everyday life. The story of the NA man in the Navy who gets sent to the brig is misleading. The Marine in charge berates the sailor. Having been in the Marines, this story show no different treatment to a Native American than anyone else in the Navy/Marine Corps.

A nice collection. Silko's "The Man to Send Rain Clouds," Bruchac's "Turtle Meat," King's "Borders," and Alexie's "War Dances" stood out the most for me. Those interested in indigenous literature should consider this book.

The book contained wonderfully written stories by a group of people that has greatly ignored for way to long! Support our indigenous population!

This book is an excellent anthology for undergraduate college classes to introduce the breadth of largely unrecognized Native American fiction. Several nations and belief systems are represented; also, some stories highlight Native interactions with the predominant white culture. It should be in every college library.

I am looking for novels by native American authors for my book group. This book is all short stories, and they are indeed very well written. So far, though, the only consistently well written novels by native American authors (in my humble opinion) are by Louise Erdrich.Even Sherman Alexie's short stories are better than his novels (again, in my H.O.).

It very nice book and something to think about in a political and social view.

I was already familiar with Sherman Alexie, but all the others were new to me. Some moving, some shocking and abrupt--but I liked just about all the stories. Although it was a little startling when "contemporary" turned out to include some very senior writers who were alive before 1900!Highly recommended!!!!

Gift that was very much enjoyed.

Its beautifully written and from a much needed different prespective.

Some interesting early stories - a good collection.