The Man Who Killed the Deer

“By far the finest novel of American Indian life I have ever read.” * Saturday Review of Literature *
“[Waters's] long and wide experience… has given him an insight to the ways of the Indian, perhaps not exceeded by any other novelist.” * Los Angeles Times *
“It will live as one of the important pieces of literature on the American Indian.” * San Francisco Chronicle *
“A rich fusion of myth and reality, both a detailed rendering of Pueblo Indian rituals, ceremonies and beliefs and an account of the Indians' political struggle to get back their ancestral lands.” * Westways *