"Gerald Hausman has spent more than twenty years studying, collecting and narrating Native American stories. Turtle Island Alphabet collects a life's research into one exquisite volume that reveals the deeper meanings of the culture of our nation's original civilization. 

More than a simple dictionary, Turtle Island Alphabet features stories and poems that strikingly reveal how symbols are integrated into everyday Native American life. Hausman's classic work also contains one hundred photographs and drawings created by Native Americans, which provide a lasting testament of a world that was once ours and that has largely been lost."--back cover.