Stories are wondrous things.
You\'ve heard it now..
Don\'t say in the years to come that you would have lived your life differently if only you had heard this story.
King reminds the reader, Native and non-Native, that storytelling carries with it social and moral responsibilties.
Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, Louis Owens, Robert Alexie, and others - who provide alterNative narratives of the Native experience that question, create a present, and imagine a future.
That imagiNative Indian that North Americans hold dear has been challenged by Native writers - N.
The Indian simply has to exist in our imaginations.
So many stories have been told about Indians, King comments, that there is no reason for the Indian to be real.
With wry humor, King deftly weaves events from his own life as a child in California, an academic in Canada, and a Native North American with a wide-ranging discussion of stories told by and about Indians.
From creation stories to personal experiences, historical anecdotes to social injustices, racist propaganda to works of contemporary Native literature, King probes Native culture\'s deep ties to storytelling.
In The Truth about Stories, Native novelist and scholar Thomas King explores how stories shape who we are and how we understand and interact with other people.
And they are dangerous.
Stories are wondrous things
