PAPER TRAIL

New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1994. Book. Illus. by Ken Robbins;. Good Only. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 8vo. (xi) 371 pp. Signed on the title page by Michael Dorris. Quarter-bound in burgundy cloth on burgundy boards; decorated in gilt on the front panel; lettered in gilt on the spine; headband. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; missing the front free endpaper; slight discolouration on the upper right corners of the first few pages. This collection of essays contains: FAMILY OCCASIONS: Packing Up; Sundays; The Contest; Father's Day; The New York Hat; The Train Cake; A Second Adoption; Growing Up; Mice. RITES OF PASSAGE: On the Road; The Quest for Pie; The Sentry. EVERYBODY'S CHILDREN: Thankfulness; Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: A National Perspective; Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: A Parent's Perspective; Crossing the Line; Crazy Horse Malt Liquor; The Power of Love. INDIANS: I Isn't for Indian; Indians on the Shelf; Rewriting History; Discoveries; The Grass Still Grows the Rivers Still Flow: Contemporary Native Americans; The Hundred Year War for White Earth. LEARNING FROM MISTAKES: For Indians No Thanksgiving; Native American Literature in an Ethnohistorical Context; Mr Reagan and the Indians; Dances with Indians. OPENED DOORS: Beating the System; Trusting the Words; Summer Reading; Word from the Front; House of Stone; Little Fears. GOING PLACES: Americans All; Martyrs; Pen Pals; The Forgotten Algebra Test Nightmare; Life Stories. HOME: The Cherry Tree; Three Yards; Real and True Estate; Maintaining a Home; and Cutting Grass..