Kent Nerburn

Nerburn uses an interesting vehicle to promote understanding of the Native American. He is the author and a character that is approached by an old Indian to write his story in educated language. He spends a good deal of time with “Dan” being driven on many back roads by Grover, another Indian, meeting friends, seeing sacred sites, and recording Dan's stories and philosophies. It purports to be true but with changed names. However in later interviews he explains it was a way of using compiled stories, oral histories and activities that he experienced or created to tell the Native American story as closely as a non-Indian could understand it. I felt a better understanding for sure, but it still read as a story.… (more)