Waters, Frank - H. David Brumble III (essay date Spring 1980)
H. David Brumble III (essay date Spring 1980)
SOURCE: "Indian Sacred Materials: Kroeber, Kroeber, Waters, and Momaday," in Smoothing the Ground: Essays on Native American Oral Literature, edited by Brian Swann, University of California Press, 1983, pp. 283-300.
[Brumble is an American educator and nonfiction writer with a particular interest in the relationship between Native Americans and the anthropologists who often tell their stories. In the excerpt below, which is taken from an essay that first appeared in the Spring 1980 issue of The Canadian Review of American Studies, he expresses deep reservations concerning the ethics and accuracy of Waters's descriptions of Native religions.]
One of the threads that bind the bundle we are coming to call American Indian Literature is that of the Indian caught between two cultures; there are, to name but a few, Abel in Momaday's House Made of Dawn, Martiniano in Waters' The Man...
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