Waters, Frank - Jack L. Davis and June H. Davis (essay date May 1974)
Jack L. Davis and June H. Davis (essay date May 1974)
SOURCE: "Frank Waters and the Native American Consciousness," in Western American Literature, Vol. 9, No. 1, May, 1974, pp. 33-44.
[In this essay, the critics examine Waters's exploration of the rational and intuitive modes of consciousness in his novels and nonfiction, particularly as they relate to cultural conflicts between Native Americans and whites.]
Several years ago during a televised interview series conducted by John R. Milton, the distinguished Southwestern writer Frank Waters was asked why he wrote so much about Indians. He replied simply:
I can answer only that I have lived with Indians all of my life and they interest me. And I probably justify it rationally by saying that, after all, we are all interested in our relationship to our land, to our own earth, and the Indians are indigenous to this continent. The Indian is much different from our European...
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