New York. 1962. Capricorn Books. Reprinted Paperback Edition. Previous Owner's Name Sticker in Front, Otherwise Very Good in Wrappers. 366 pages. paperback. CAP71. Cover designed by Robert Sullivan (Design based upon Ojibway drawngs). keywords: Native America Literature Anthology America. DESCRIPTION - To the American Indian, the thought and the word were sacred, and each of the many tribes had its own channels of expression. Thus grew up a store of unrecorded literature. This famous book was the first anthology of American Indian prose and poetry, and reveals that aboriginal America had a body of primitive literature worthy to rank beside those of other continents and races, and demonstrated the American Indian to be ‘an outstanding poet, a singer of exquisite songs, a maker of sublime prayers, dangerous spells, and a judicious teller of tales and mythic stories.' inventory #30757