Judy R. Smith's Yellowbird was the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas First Book Award recipient. David Lynn, editor of the prestigious Kenyon Review notes, "Yellowbird is a marvelous achievement--full of wit, invention, and emotional power. There is a wildness of spirit here and a searing honesty. I was entirely caught up while reading Yellowbird and only reluctantly came to the end." University of Oklahoma Professor of English and Native American Studies, Geary Hobson, writes, "Have you ever found yourself carefully scrutinizing mid-19th Century daguerreotypes--as if halfway expecting the cut of Prince Albert topcoats and the stylish flair of ribbon clusters of the clothing of the well-dressed fathers and mothers and their children will somehow reveal what the faces aren't offering, what they can't offer? Yellowbird, with its several strands of intricately woven narratives of a past century's voices, is just such a similar act, one in which the reader is not only rewarded with a deeper and clearer understanding of the people in that olden day, but also of our own century and its multi-faceted assemblage of voices and faces." Yellowbird is an important collection, essential for readers of Native American Studies, fiction, and women's studies. Yellowbird weaves together three narrations: an entirely fictional Yellowbird, Algonquin mystic; a partly autobiographical Sophia Peabody Hawthorne; and a mostly fictional Lizzie Shaw Melville.

Yellowbird

Politics & Social Sciences

Smith, Judy R.

Social Sciences

Sandhill Pr

Based on John Josselyn's 1646 record of an English woman who was found guilty of allowing an Indian man to have carnal knowledge of her and was sentenced to wear an armband with the outline of an Indian on it, Dragonfly, Walking Stick explores the complex relationships among and between Algonquin Indians and English Colonists.Dragonfly, Walking Stick examines the difficult and inspiring introduction of Algonquin Indian tribes to the English Colonists. Weaving the spiritual worlds of Native Americans and English Christians, the novel celebrates the creation of fertile hybridity as it confronts the difficulty of such rich mixtures finding acceptance in the seventeenth-century Colonial world.

Dragonfly, Walking Stick

Literature & Fiction

United States

Stephen F. Austin University Press

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