New Releases by Joseph Bruchac

Twenty-one leading American Indian poets discuss the role of Native American culture in their work, the forces that shape contemporary Native American poetry, and the prospects of that poetry''s surviving as a form apart from the poetry of the dominant culture.

Fiction. Native American Studies. This is a compilation of Native American stories from the Abenaki tribe retold by Joseph Bruchac. In this book he captures the mysticism and adventure that these previous oral stories had. The illustrations by Kahionhes brilliantly depict some scenes in the stories and add to the experience of reading the book. Joseph Bruchac lives with his wife, Carol, in the Adirondack foothills town of Greenfield Center, New York in the same house he was raised by his grandparents. Much of his writing draws on that region of his Abenki ancestry. Kahionhes, or John Fadden, is an artist, art teacher, and the illustrator of more than twenty books dealing with Native Americans. He lives with his wife, Eva Thompson Fadden, and their three sons in the Adirondacks.

An illustrated collection of traditional Iroquois tales about animals, adventures, monsters, and other topics.

Tommy and his uncle are both very far from home. Tommy is away at a Native American boarding school, and his Uncle George is on an unknown island in the Pacific Ocean, fighting in World War II. Neither of them is allowed to write in their Navajo language, but the letters they exchange help them both through some hard times.

"The stars in a night sky tell many stories. Read about what a boy and his grandpa see when they gaze up at the stars a night." -- page [4] of cover