Jamake Highwater Summary

Critical Essay by Jane Yolen Jamake Highwater, of Blackfeet/Cherokee heritage, calls himself the Indian Homer who has written in "Anpao" an American Indian Odyssey. He almost pulls it of... Read more

Critical Essay by N. Scott Momaday ["Many Smokes, Many Moons"-is a general survey which] treats the Americas as a whole. Mr. Highwater writes in his preface: "This book is an effo... Read more

Critical Essay by Jean F. Mercier In a preface to his engrossing and eloquent work [in Many Smokes, Many Moons, Highwater] gives an example of fundamental differences in understanding between native A... Read more

Critical Essay by John C. Ewers [Song from the Earth: American Indian Painting's] greatest weakness lies in its provincial assumption that no Indian painting was important unless it was created... Read more

Critical Essay by Ellen Sisco [Anpao] takes many of the native American Indian tales and weaves them together into one story—a kind of Odyssey—which relates creation, the beginnings of D... Read more

Critical Essay by Judith Mcpheron Like many current books about native Americans, there is a contradiction inherent in [Ritual of the Wind: North American Indian Ceremonies, Music, and Dances]. The ph... Read more

Critical Essay by Ruth M. Stein [In Anpao] Highwater spins ancient and more recent tales of Indian tribes, focused around one fictional character, and set as stories-within-a story. A unified structur... Read more