We've had some great American Novelists? You’ve read some of them in school, right? But one writer you’ve probably never heard of is John Rollin Ridge, aka Yellow Bird: the first Native American to ever publish a novel about a ficticious Mexican folk hero no less!

Originally released by Makematic, 2021. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on March 03, 2021.

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