Black Eagle Child, The Facepaint Narratives

ROY A. YOUNG BEAR

Publication: University of Iowa Press, 1992, Iowa City

First edition. 8vo. Inked presentation inscription on the half title page signed by the author. Cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, black front and rear endpapers, xv [3], 261 [2] pp., foreword, illustrated, afterword. Foreword by Albert E. Stone. The author tells us of his life in the fifties, sixties, and seventies and tells us of circumstances of racism, Vietnam, drugs, the Doors, and Castaneda cults. But always central to these vignettes are his exits from and his return to his home on Iowa's Mesquakie Settlement, where his great-great-grandfather helped to establish the lands on behalf of the tribe in 1856. A lyrical coming-of-age novel of Edgar Bearchild , who eventually finds his voice and purpose through poetry, the songs of his people and surviving the dangers of adolescence. As new, unread copy in dust jacket.

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