THE FEVER AND FRUSTRATION OF THE INDIAN HEART

Maracle Press, Oshawa, 1972, believe first.  Trade soft cover, 51 pages.  Very good; yellow illustrated card covers with red and black lettering on front and rear.  Very light edge wear, binding sound, a bit of age toning.  Interior clean and unmarked with white pages; black & white illustrations.  INSCRIBED, SIGNED AND DATED at bottom of Author’s Preface.  Foreword by Jay Silverheels “Tonto” (A Mohawk Indian); artwork by Peggy Miller (An Ojibwa Indian).  ‘This collection of poems, prose and verse is offered to you.  I trust that your heart will sense the fever, frustration and pathos that grips the Native heart!  Please note, where the term Indian is used it is, unfortunately, only because that is the term by which the general public recognize us.  The term Indian represents to we Natives a nickname or a misnomer given to us by Columbus!  My life has been intimately involved in the political struggles of our Native People.  From the occupation of the Federal building of Indian Affairs in Washington, D.C. to Native People’s Embassy in Ottawa, my ear has been to the earth, hearing the cry of the “grass roots Native People.”  Some of these writings are the outgrowth.’ (from Author’s Preface)