Te Ata : Chickasaw storyteller, American treasure / Richard Green ; afterword by Rayna Green and John Troutman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Green, Richard (Richard Walter), author.

Contributor:

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ata, Te.

Chickasaw Indians--Biography.

Chickasaw Indians.

Storytellers--United States--Biography.

Storytellers.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel 7885)

Physical Description:

xiii, 354 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2002]

Summary:

"In 1987, Te Ata (1895-1995) became the first person ever declared an "Oklahoma Treasure." Throughout a sixty-year career, her performances of American Indian folklore enchanted a wide variety of audiences, from European royalty to Americans of all ages, and Indians across the American contents from Canada to Peru. Richard Green sets the inspiring story of Te Ata against the historical, political, economic, and social upheavals of the Dawes Act, the federal government's allotment program designed to abolish tribal governments and assimilate the Chickasaw and other Indian tribes into the American mainstream."--dust jacket flap.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-340) and index.

Local Notes:

Schimmel 7885: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Caroline F. Schimmel. With dust jacket. Used and Bargain Books shop bookmark on file, 2025. Review by Donna L. Akers in Western Historical Quarterly, Winter 2003, on file, 2025.

ISBN:

0806134119

OCLC:

48501258