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Title: The Powwow Highway: A Novel by David Seals ISBN: 0-452-26377-8 Publisher: Plume Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An American Classic
Comment: The previous review from the reader in Kansas obviously has very limited experience with the Native American community. Their criticism of the language in "Pow Wow Highway" reveals their own stereotypical and romanticized notions and expectations of the modern American Indian community. This reviewer and his supposed PhD candidate compatriots have completely missed the book's most valuable accomplishment: it tells the truth.
David Seal's masterpiece is a modern American classic. The language in the book is nothing if not accurate. Every Native person I know who has read this fantastic book instantly identifies with the characters, and can point to friends and family members who seem taken straight from the pages. We require our children to read it as soon as they seem old enough to comprehend it. We discuss it at length over and over again, usually over coffee and cigarettes. The humor that pervades the work is so dead-right-on it caputres the essence of Native humor in unique ways that have since been oft imitated in many other works.
This book is a must read by anyone interested in American literature, let alone in Native American literature. If only it was back in publication - along with the other equally powerful books by David Seals. The world is a much poorer place without these works of art made widely available.
Rating: 1
Summary: SHOWS INDIANS IN THE WORST POSSIBLE LIGHT
Comment: Powwow Highway is an enlightening work by David Seals which illustrates much about Indian history and current culture. The sidenotes and geography discussed is accurate. However, much of the verbage is of low quality or, in other words, unnecessarily profane. While a literary argument can be made for reflecting vernacular in common use, the author's over-indulgence in using profanity to describe the color of the car is quite unnecessary. An even worse problem is the author's method which paints American Indians in the worse possible light. As one of my PhD. program fellow students stated, it makes one think that Indians are worthless individuals and deserving of the common stereotypes. Potential readers and buyers would be well advised to opt instead for more truthful or better written books which do not emphasize the worst examples of American Indian culture.
Rating: 5
Summary: What fun!
Comment: This book is a pleasant surprise, a peek into the heart of a culture that does not see things the way we city-dwellers do. Much can be learned from this book, things that won't be found in any Sociology texts. Whats more, it is just a fun, funny little book. I wish I could think of my car as a pony....
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Title:Smoke Signals ASIN: 6305428417 Publisher: Miramax Home Entertainment Pub. Date: 06 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $16.39 |
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Title:The Business of Fancydancing ASIN: B0000950WI Publisher: Wellspring Media, In Pub. Date: 08 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $21.73 |
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Title:Skins ASIN: B000087F0X Publisher: First Look Pictures Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $13.03 |
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Title: The Searchers by Alan Lemay ISBN: 1568497040 Publisher: Buccaneer Books Inc Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $35.95 |
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Title:Powwow Highway ASIN: 6304360983 Publisher: Anchor Bay Entertainment Pub. Date: 28 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $14.99 |
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