BLUE DAWN, RED EARTH: New Native American...

BLUE DAWN, RED EARTH: New Native American Storytellers edited by Clifford E. Trafzer (Anchor: $14.95; 431 pp., paperback original). This handsome anthology focuses on stories by Native American authors not yet known to general audiences. Many of the tales center on the need for ancestral wisdom in modern America. In his introduction, Clifford Trafzer’s fictional librarian, Annie Yellowknee, observes: “Paper spirits live in books about Indian people, and they stick to your mind like glue made from your own blood.”