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Title: Just awful
Review: I can't believe all the 5-Star reviews I'm seeing. Yes, this is a well-written book, but it's no masterpiece. A book that proclaims to be the first "inside story" into a culture that the author is not a part of is a shame. I'll just quite Wendy Rose to sum up my feelings on this book. "The European-derived American public does not seem to be interested in the works of Leslie Silko and her colleagues; they want the childlike, distorted stereotype offered in the lie of Hanto Yo as interpreted by the white woman who wrote it. They do not want to read works by Lakota authors to learn Lakota history; the bookjacket of Hanto Yo itself claims that it is the first time the "inside story" has ever been told--thereby denying the existence and validity of hundreds of Northern Plains Indian authors over a century..."
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