The legend begins 500 years ago, when invaders first came to the American continent. It is in this arena that the author presents a timeless legend of a tortured and maligned spirit that refuses to die. They administer their presence with such legal definitions in the courts of their own invention. Those who appropriated their lands now call them illegals, undocumented invaders. Present day native American migrants have been labeled and treated as strangers in their ancient homelands. Growing up in the cauldron of borderland conflicts between USA and Mexico, by the edge of the river that divides both countries, the Rio Grande, he is no stranger to the myths, legends, and stories that form the world view of his multicultural native people. He has been published in several countries with his poetry translated into twelve languages. Nephtalí De León is a USA born and raised Chicano former migrant worker that became a Poet/Painter/Author/and Playwright.
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