Where the Pavement Ends: Five Native American Plays

by William S. Yellow Robe Jr.

Overview

Five plays by the award-winning Native playwright

When leading Assiniboine playwright Wil-liam S. Yellow Robe, Jr., began his theatrical career, few roles existed for American Indians. So he wrote his own plays, creating parts for himself and other Native actors.

Where the Pavement Ends contains five of Yellow Robe’s most poignant and powerful plays: The Star Quilter, The Body Guards, Rez Politics, The Council, and Sneaky. Written in the 1980s and 1990s and based on his experiences on the Fort Peck reservation, these plays explore American Indian experience, from Indian-white relations to ecology and identity. Combining raw reservation reality with subtle humor, their unique perspective on humanity remains fresh today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780806140964
Publisher:	University of Oklahoma Press
Publication date:	08/24/2009
Series:	American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series , #37
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

William S. Yellow Robe, Jr., currently teaches Native American literature and drama in the English Department at the University of Maine. He is the award-winning author of more than forty-five plays.