Conversations with eighteen Native writers including their thoughts and concerns about writing, the influence of the oral tradition, what makes them write, the relationship between Native writers and (non-Native) critics, their views of ...

"This volume unites twenty-three articles by high caliber Native and non-Native, North American and European scholars on a variety of topics relating to North America and tribal, local, and global aspects - land and homeland, education, ...

Among the authors whose works are dealt with are: Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Maxine Hong Kingston, Estella Portillo, N. Scott Momaday, Louise Erdrich, Markoosie, Maria Campbell, Beatrice Culleton.

In addition to being Howard Adams' own record of his remarkable life, the book also contains many contributions by those who were touched by him as a friend, colleague, mentor, activist, political leader, teacher, and scholar.