Bruchac, Joseph. Foot of the Mountain and Other Stories.BRUCHAC, Joseph. Foot of the mountain and other stories. Holy Cow Holy cow or sacred cow may refer to:
There are some wonderful short stories reflecting American Indian American Indian or Native American or Amerindian or indigenous American Any member of the various aboriginal peoples of the Western Hemisphere, with the exception of the Eskimos (Inuit) and the Aleuts. lore and culture in this collection of 18 stories and essays, pulled together by Bruchac (author of many books) from his work originally published elsewhere. Bruchac is an Abenaki Indian, university educated and widely traveled ("I did a three-year stint as a volunteer teacher in West Africa West Africa A region of western Africa between the Sahara Desert and the Gulf of Guinea. It was largely controlled by colonial powers until the 20th century. West African adj. & n. ."). The culture, the personalities, the language, the old ways of his tribal ancestors call to him as he engages in the process of valuing what is old while living in the world as he finds it today. There is quite a range of subjects and settings in these stories and essays. Examples: Indians fight in the Civil War, link culturally to each other. Indians relate to (and outwit out·wit tr.v. out·wit·ted, out·wit·ting, out·wits 1. To surpass in cleverness or cunning; outsmart. 2. Archaic To surpass in intelligence. ) white men who hardly know they've been outwitted. Indians maintain aspects of their traditional ways of life while living on reservations or very near whites. Survival is an issue whether in the open country of old or on the reservations of today. Bruchac's love of the earth comes to the fore as he makes a case for greater ecological consciousness. Several of the stories retell re·tell tr.v. re·told , re·tell·ing, re·tells 1. To relate or tell again or in a different form. 2. To count again. Verb 1. or incorporate mythological stories handed down through the ages in the oral tradition. There is a touch of the bawdy bawd·y adj. bawd·i·er, bawd·i·est 1. Humorously coarse; risqué. 2. Vulgar; lewd. bawd  i·ly adv. in some of the stories, but the author neither writes around it nor exaggerates it. Mature young readers and adults will appreciate this collection. Chris Charlebois has drawn a touching cover. Edna Boardman, Libn., Bismarck, ND
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