THE GRASS DANCER by Susan Power

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Susan Power is a Sioux from Chicago with a B.A. from Radcliffe, a J.D. from Harvard, and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writer's Workshop. For all these academic credentials, this book is very nonacademic and readable.
Power focuses on a group of North Dakota Sioux who are in touch with the past and the magic of nature. Tribal spells abound and ghosts are an everyday presence that is accepted by the members of the tribe.
Written in vignettes, this is a wonderful book that does not deal with day-to-day existences of Native Americans, but concentrates instead on their spiritual lives.