David Seals

American novelist

David Seals (April 29, 1947 – February 12, 2017) was an American writer. His other published works included the novel Sweet Medicine, a sequel to The Powwow Highway which Booklist called "a comic masterpiece". In Sweet Medicine, the story continues where The Powwow Highway ended, but with the added device of the characters also commenting on the success of the previous book and film. In an ironic and self deprecating incident, the protagonists have the chance to see the movie, but choose to see a Hollywood blockbuster instead. Later, they also encounter a commune of yuppie newagers, and are tempted with the promise of fame and money at the cost of choosing to sell out their vision. The New York Times described the book as "full of adventure, humor, love and sex, and occasionally some eloquent rage about the way Indians have been treated in America." Seals' essays have appeared in The Nation, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, and three scholarly anthologies. His family memoir is entitled The Roswell Trilogy Abduction at Roswell, Roswell Theogony, and Confessions of the Gods.

Seals was a member of the American Indian Movement and the Bear Butte Council.

The Powwow Highway: a Novel (1990) New York, Plume. Sweet Medicine (1992) New York, Orion Books. The Poetic College: Essays and Poems on Literature and Society, 1989 1991 (1996) Sturgis, SD. Sky and Sage Books. Third Eye Theatre (1996) Sturgis, SD. Sky and Sage Books. Thunder Nation (1996) Sturgis, SD. Sky and Sage Books. The Seventh Generation: Images of the Lakota Today (1998) New York, PowerHouse Books. Abduction at Roswell (2008) Arizona Press. Confessions of the Gods (2014) Moonlit Press, Williams Arizona.

Klawans, Stuart; Peter Biskind, Carl Bromley (2000) Cinema Nation: The Best Writing on Film from the Nation 1913 2000. New York, NY: Thunder's Mouth Press. (contributor)
Deloria Jr, Vine; Marijo Moore (2003) Genocide of the Mind: New Native American Writing. Nation Books. (contributor)
Moore, Marijo (2006) Eating Fire, Tasting Blood: An Anthology of the American Indian Holocaust. New York, NY: Thunder's Mouth Press. (contributor)