Designed especially for classroom use this book brings together the best-known works of the nineteenth-century Indian writer William Apess including the first extended autobiography by a Native American. The text is drawn from On Our Own Ground which was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Book. Barry O Connell has written a new introduction for this abbreviated edition. Author: William Apess Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press Published: 10/29/1997 Pages: 176 Binding Type: Paperback Weight: 0.67lbs Size: 9.24h x 6.13w x 0.54d ISBN: 9781558491076 About the Author Barry O Connell is professor of English at Amherst College. He is editor of Our Own Ground: The Complete Writings of William Apess a Pequot which is part of the series Native Americans of the Northeast: History Culture and the Contemporary published by the University of Massachusetts Press.