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Landfill Meditations: Crossblood Stories. (book reviews)

American Indian Quarterly, The,  March, 1994  by Smith, Lawrence R.

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Gerald Vizenor once said the only Native American ritual that would never be appropriated by white people was the Ghost Dance, since its successful practice would result in the disappearance of the practitioners. The stories in Landfill Meditations, taken together, from a kind of high tech ghost dance, where Vizenor's satirical humor attempts to laugh a myriad of historical and contemporary stupidities into oblivion.

However, unlike the Ghost Dance, the edge of Vizenor's wild imagination is directed at virtually everyone, regardless of ethnic background, from New Agers with romantic ...

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