*Native American Classics presents great stories and poems from America's earliest writers. Featured are "The Soft-Hearted Sioux" by Zitkala-Sa, "On Wolf Mountain" by Charles Eastman, "How the White Race Came to America" by Handsome Lake, and seven more tales of humor and tragedy. Also eight poems, including Alex Posey's "Wildcat Bill" and E. Pauline Johnson's "The Cattle Thief". The volume is edited by Tom Pomplun, with noted Native American writers John E. Smelcer and Joseph Bruchac.