Poetry. Native American Studies. Jimmie Durham is a Cherokee Indian who has been, among other things, a delegate of the International Indian Treaty Council to the United Nations. This book features his poems, prose, drawings, and speeches, giving an overview of his place in his society, world society, time, and history. "The mystical drawings complement these hard-edged, lyric, bitter, humorous and always honest poems, which at their best are, as the writer intended 'as eloquent as the sound of a rattlesnake"-Peter Matthiessen.