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 A novel for ages 10 and up by Witi Ihimaera (Maori), Harcourt Books, San Diego, 2003; 160 pages, $8 paperbound
The Whale Rider, originally published in 1987 and the inspiration for the award-winning film Whale Rider, has finally made its way from New Zealand across Te Moana Nui a Kiwa, or the Great Ocean of Kiwa, to the Americas.
Reviewed by Debra Utacia Krol (Salinan/Esselen)
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By Joe Ben Wheat; edited by Ann Lane Hedlund, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 2003; 440 pages, $75 clothbound
There is a special creative identity attached to singer Joanne Shenandoah. It is evident throughout the course of her career, beginning with the numerous recordings of Iroquois social songs that have come to define her music. Though she has no single song that can be described as a hit, her productivity and creativity since the late 1980s have led to her position today as one of the top-selling and most widely recognized Native recording artists.
