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SONGS OF THE DREAM PEOPLE: Chants and Images from the Indians and Eskimos of North America by James -- Ed. & Illus. Houston

SONGS OF THE DREAM PEOPLE: Chants and Images from the Indians and Eskimos of North America

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Publisher: Atheneum

The selections are uniformly short, the imagery sharp and strong, the diverse subjects and tones united by the common, unquestioned assumption that ""My words are tied in one/ With the great mountains,/ With the great rocks,/ I one with my body/ and my heart."" So also Houston's two-toned drawings are sensitively, unpretentiously ""tied in one"" with the words.