Review of Winged Words: American Indian Writers Speak

If we are to make valid critical interpretations of Native American literature, we must discover, or rediscover, cultural values other than those rooted in Western aesthetic or individual aesthetic sensibilities, Laura ColtelIi recommends. She provides this perspective through a series of ten oral autobiographies (interviews) with contemporary American Indian authors. This format provides a particularly poignant form of self-revelation given the rich oral tradition of First Americans