The New Powwow Highway - Paperback

by David Seals (Author)

The New Powwow Highway - the inside story of the revolutionary American Indian Movement (AIM), of indigenous natives fighting the illegal and genocidal oppression of the United States in the last third of the 20th century. Wounded Knee massacres in South Dakota, targeted U.S. Government assassinations of legitimate 'Indian' leaders all over the American hemisphere, the continuing imprisonment of many Indian leaders in AIM like Leonard Peltier who were defending their unarmed camps from the FBI, and many other atrocious stories of murder and deceit by David Seals, who was in the AIM leadership from 1971-Present. Seals is the author of the underground classic novel and feature film 'The Powwow Highway' (produced by George Harrison), and many other books and plays chronicling the tragedy and comedy of his fellow warriors all around North and South America. Reviews of some of his other books, like 'Sweet Medicine' [Random House, NY, 1992], included a full page NY Times rave review describing it as "a comic masterpiece, full of elequent rage, adventure, and sex." The Denver Post wrote in 1984, "Seals takes us into the places where Indians live, not yesterday, but today, and into their hearts, their lovemaking, and their tragedies."

Author Biography

'The Powwow Highway', 'The Libyad', 'Arizona Savagery' - these are some of the many titles by this prolific author of 45 years deep in the "belly of the Beast" as he calls the United States of America. An essayist as well for The Nation magazine, filmmaker with George Harrison's Handmade Films, playwright with a musical epic adaptation of 'The Powwow Highway' coming in 2013 to the New York stage, David has been friends with great Native American leaders like Leonard Peltier, Anna Mae Aquash, and John Trudell in the struggle for justice and Treaty Rights. He has also lived 3 years in Tripoli, Libya, and has written extensively about it in the contemporary novel 'The Libyad', and which is also adapted for the New York stage under the title of 'The Prince of Libya', chronicling in detail his meetings with the hated Muammar al-Qathafi and explaining his overthrow and the positive future of his beloved North Africa, in post-Islamic tribes. As a Poet and shamanic mythographer, David is also very spiritual as a "Medicine Warrior" with the Native elders of the Americas and Africa especially. His books of philosophy and religious history include 'The Creation Myth' about the origins of great Shamans like Osiris and Isis, and the interlopers and impostors to their divinity who call themselves "gods", like jehovah. 'Confessions of the Gods' is an "Encyclopaedia of the New Shamans' detailing a NEW MYTHIC ENCYCLOPAEDIA in 970 pages of the human deities who have so profoundly shaped all human, supernatural history.