Waters, Frank - Scott Vickers (review date May-June 1993)
Scott Vickers (review date May-June 1993)
SOURCE: "Testimonies of Native American Life," in The Bloomsbury Review, Vol. 13, No. 3, May-June, 1993, p. 1.
[Vickers is a Bloomsbury Review associate editor whose master's thesis will examine the work of Frank Waters. In the following review, he praises Brave Are My People, which he says "is destined to become a textbook in cultural studies."]
Now in his 91st year, and recently nominated a sixth time for the Nobel Prize in Literature, Frank Waters continues with his intrepid work, bringing a revisionary and visionary light upon the nature of the American Indian. Balancing out a career equally dedicated to fiction and nonfiction, this latest book [Brave Are My People: Indian Heroes Not Forgotten] is a tribute to 22 of Waters' most revered Indian tribal leaders, medicine men, statesmen, and warriors who stood, or tried to stand, against the white tide of materialism that...
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