✍️ Author Biography
Fritz Scholder
🌍 American
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Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey is a 1977 novel written by Jamake Highwater and illustrated by Fritz Scholder. Styled after Homer's Odyssey, the holy man Wasicong narrates the story of the hero Anpao and his quest to secure the Sun's permission to marry Ko-ko-mik-e-is. Highwater said he developed the story “out of the many stories of the boyhood of early Indians ... in order to make an Indian ‘Ulysses’ who could become the central dramatic character in the saga of Indian life in North America…
