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Red Earth: A Vietnam Warrior's Journey - Softcover

Red Eagle, Phillip H.

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two novellas, first Native book out of Vietnam

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In the two novellas included within this book (Red Earth and Bois de Sioux), the author explores the Native American experience of Vietnam veterans with post-traumatic stress syndrome. His protagonists use mystical ceremonies that have been passed on from their grandfathers in order to relive the situations that have thrown them out of balance with the world. In the first story, Raymond Crow-Belt travels back into time to prevent an ambush of his squad, and in the second, Clifford Goes-First travels back to inhabit the body of a fallen comrade in order to prevent an atrocity. In the act of healing themselves, the characters also save a larger circle of humanity. Time and reality are not linear concepts within these works: past, present, and future fluidly shift around each other. This is the first work published by Red Eagle, and he presents a unique new voice to the genre. Eric Robbins

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