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Books : Literature & Fiction : Authors, A-Z : ( W ) : Welch, James
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The year is 1870, and Fool's Crow, so called after he killed the chief of the Crows during a raid, has a vision at the annual Sun Dance ceremony. The young warrior sees the end of the Indian way of life and the choice that must be made: resistance or humiliating accommodation. "A major contibution to Native American literature."--Wallace Stegner.
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Two contemporary classics from a major writer of the Native American renaissance
During his life, James Welch came to be regarded as a master of American prose, and his first novel, Winter in the Blood, is one of his most enduring works. The narrator of this beautiful, often disquieting novel is a young Native American man living on the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana. Sensitive and self-destructive, he searches for something that will bind him to the lands of his ancestors but is haunted by personal tragedy, the dissolution of his once proud heritage, and Montana’s vast emptiness. Winter in the Blood is an evocative and unforgettable work of literature that will continue to move and inspire anyone who encounters it.
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For this Bison Books edition, James Welch, the acclaimed author of Winter in the Blood (1986) and other novels, introduces Mildred Walker's vivid heroine, Ellen Webb, who lives in the dryland wheat country of central Montana during the early 1940s. He writes, "It is a story about growing up, becoming a woman, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, within the space of a year and a half. But what a year and a half it is!" Welch offers a brief biography of Walker, who wrote nine of her thirteen novels while living in Montana.
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Raised in poverty on a Blackfeet reservation, prominent lawyer Sylvester Yellow Calf is now secure in the knowledge that his business and political success seems limitless--until a disgruntled convict, denied parole, threatens to destroy his career. A gripping suspense thriller . . . a complex psychological portrait."--San Francisco Chronicle.
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Harriet Ryegate, the proper daughter of Massachusetts Puritans, is the first white woman to go far into the wilderness beyond the upper Missouri. With her husband, a Baptist minister, she seeks to convert the Blackfoot Indians to Christianity. But it is the Ryegates who are changed by their "journey into strangeness." Marcus Ryegate returns to Massachusetts obsessed by a beautiful Indian woman. For sermonizing about her, he pays a heavy price.Harriet, one of Mildred Walker’s most fully realized characters, writes in her journal about "the effect of the Wilderness on civilized persons who are accustomed to live in the world of words." If a Lion Could Talk reveals the tragic lack of communication that stretches from Massachusetts to Missouri and beyond in the years before the Civil War—and the appalling heart of darkness that is close to home.
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Stories and Poems. Contributors to this issue include: Sherman Alexie, S. Ben-Tov, Dana Boussard, Kevin Bowen, Rafael Campo, Richard Chess, Sharon Cumberland, Gina Dorcely, Joseph Duemer, Debra Earling, Anita Endrezze, Ted Genoways, Diane Glancy, Patricia Goedicke, Jeffrey Greene, Ann Harleman, Margaret Kaufman, Marshall N. Klimasewiski, Mark Levine, Peter Marcus, Ted McNulty, Scott Momaday, Lee Ann Mortensen, Thylias Moss, Ophelia Navarro, Simon Ortiz, Eileen Pollack, Alberto Alvaro Ríos, Natasha Saje, Ripley Schemm, Bruce Smith, Charles Harper Webb, S. L. Wisenberg, Elizabeth Woody, Judith Yamamoto
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The Wayfarer is the suspenseful, sometimes violent story of a woman named Madhva who escapes the brutality and poverty of her environment and finds her way to the Orient. There, she discovers and studies an ancient philosophy known as the Tao, or the Way. Over years of study, her Tibetan master helps her to develop her spiritual power, ready to become a Wayfarer. These people, in the mystical tradition, have devoted themselves for centuries to liberating the poor and oppressed from slavery of every type. Madhva is opposed by the remnants of an ancient and vicious race, the Shivaki, from whom the peaceful Tibetans descended, and who now are spread across the whole earth. The Shivaki are protected by powerful politicians and governments and are determined to take over the drug operations in every country.
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