New Releases by Jamake Highwater

The popular writer of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry examines how people who stand outside of society because of their sexual orientation, physical appearance, ideas, artistic inclinations, or ethnic heritage, often achieve lasting and even profound influence upon the culture at large. He combines his own experience as a gay Native American with sources in the arts, literature, biology, psychology, and anthropology. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Comments on some of the religious ideas of the peoples of widely different times and places throughout the world.

A fictionalized retelling of the Hindu legend of Prince Rama who, while in exile from his father''s kingdom, fights and wins a great battleagainst the forces of evil led by the demon king Ravana.

See "Homoeroticism" and "Homosexuality" in the index.

Sitko, growing up in a hostile white world that tries to make him renounce his heritage as an American Indian, finds refuge in the pictures he paints.

Traces the rise and decline of the Olmecs, Maya, Incas, Aztecs, and the major tribes of North America and discusses the culture of each tribe

A Santee Sioux Indian named Yesa, after being taken at age sixteen to live among white men, becomes a doctor and then returns to the reservation to live as an Indian.

Alone and destitute after the death of her husband, Amana finds lasting friendship, love and disillusionment, and eventually moves to a trading post town where she strives to give her daughter and grandchildren a sense of pride in their Indian heritage.

This book contains a series of personal views that have come out of the authors experience in two widely separated cultures and lifestyles.

Traditional tales from North American Indian tribes woven into one story that relates the adventures of one boy as he grows to manhood.

An introduction to the achievements of 50 contemporary North American Indian artists. Includes brief biographies of each.

NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY 35,000 B.C. TO 1973 A.D.

A young American attorney and his British architect and artist friend journey by steamboat and mule through Central America, where they stumble upon the forgotten Mayan civilization. Their historic journey is the basis for Journey to the Sky.

Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries there was little Indian painting to be seen in the white man''s world. All forms of Indian culture were discouraged and stamped out as impediments to the process of stripping the Indians of their Indianness. Indian assimilation was not very successful and in 1934 under a partial reversal of government policy, an amazing outpouring of Indian painting began to surface.