The swallow was attracted by the thin figure of Reed, so he began to fly around her and court her by creating silver circles on the surface of the water. One summer he was flying down the river after a big yellow butterfly, so he saw Reed for the first time. One night, a little Swallow flew over the city and fell in love with a Reed, so he stayed in the city, even though all his friends had already flown to Egypt six weeks ago. The mathematics professor asked them how they knew what an angel looked like, and they replied that they had seen an angel in a dream. The happy prince was the only one who was always completely happy, and the residents of the Charity Children, dressed in their crimson robes and clean white aprons, said that the statue looked like an angel. Deftly crossing genre boundaries and weaving together a multitude of tones and images-from grief to humor, grape Jell-O to supernatural strobe lights-it is also an unforgettable portrait of what it means to be a Native American in the modern world.One boy on the street was crying because he was not given the moon, and his mother asked him why he couldn't be like the Happy Prince who would never cry for something he didn't have. Set against the backdrop of the tumultuous 1960s, Black Eagle Child is the story of Edgar’s passage from boyhood to manhood, from his youthful misadventures with Ted, to his year at prestigious liberal arts college in California, to his return to Iowa and success as a poet.

After partaking of the congregation’s sacred star medicine, Edgar receives a prophetic vision and comes to a newfound understanding of his people’s past and present that will ultimately reshape the course of his life. Edgar Bearchild and Ted Facepaint, too broke to join their friends for a night of drinking in a nearby farm town, decide to attend a ceremonial gathering of the Well-Off Man Church, a tribal sect with hallucinogenic practices.

Mixing prose and poetry, ancient traditions and modern sensibilities, this brilliant, profane, and poignant coming-of-age story is a masterpiece of Native American literature At a Thanksgiving party held in a Bureau of Indian Affairs gymnasium, the elders of the Meskwaki Settlement in central Iowa sip coffee while the teenagers plot their escape.

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