Black Eagle Child

The Facepaint Narratives

By Ray A. Young Bear, Foreword by Albert E. Stone

Singular Lives: The Iowa Series in North American Autobiography

281 pp, 4 photos, 1992
$25.95 hardcover 0-87745-356-X

"This book is a story with great liveliness. It reminds me of Huckleberry Finn but with real huckleberries this time. The complicated mysteries and zaniness of the Native American soul rise up in the story, and the 'other world' crosses this world in a way deeply satisfying."—Robert Bly

"...speaks from a kind of timeless experience; his voice is the voice of the coyote or singer of 'Beowulf' or the inventor of words."—N. Scott Momaday

A candid, poetic account of childhood and young manhood through the eyes of a Native American, this vivid narrative is destined to become a central moral for our time. Through the persona of Edgar Bearchild—a member of the Black Eagle Child Settlement—Ray A. Young Bear takes readers on an unforgettable "journey of words" as he documents grief and anguish countered by an abundance of humor, pride, and insight.