Book Controversy
Ted Jojola (tjojola@bootes.unm.edu)
Wed, 3 Feb 1993 10:18:00 MST
There was a story on National Native News concerning some book-bashing
about an anthology of American Indian folktales. According to the
Native American parents interviewed in the story, they were humuliated
by some of the sexual content of the stories. The result was the
pulling of the book from public and school libraries in New York.
Can anyone give us more specifics about this. I didn't catch the title
but it sounded like the anthology coauthored by Richard Erdoes &
Alphonso Ortiz. If this is the case, I thought the book was relatively
benign? Is there another book out?
Ted Jojola
Native American Studies
University of New Mexico