"Turtle Meat and Other Stories." By Joseph Bruchac. Holy Cow! Press.
$10.95.
The author - a resident of Greenfield Center in Saratoga County - has
toured widely telling stories of Native Americans in the Northeast and has
collected several volumes of them. So it`s hardly surprising that his original fiction echoes these tales.
Many of his brief stories focus on conflicts between Native Americans
and Caucasians. "Wolves" depicts the struggle between men who want to conquer the Earth and people who want to live in harmony with it; a clash with a
bootlegger becomes a metaphor for the destruction of Amerindian …
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