Indian voices : listening to Native Americans / Alison Owings.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Owings, Alison.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Ethnic identity.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Social conditions.

Indians of North America--Cultural assimilation.

Indians, Treatment of--North America.

Indians, Treatment of.

North America.

Indians of North America--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxv, 363 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2011]

Summary:

A contemporary oral history documenting what Native Americans from 16 different tribal nations say about themselves and the world around them.

Contents:

A man of the dawn: Darrell Newell (Passamaquoddy)

"Indians 101": Elizabeth Lohah Homer (Osage)

A trio of Lumbees: Pamela Brooks Sweeney, Curt Locklear, and Mary Ann Cummings Jacobs

Elders of the Haudenosaunee: Darwin Hill (Tonawanda Seneca) and Geraldine Green (Cattaraugus Seneca)

City kid: Ansel Deon (Lakota/Navajo)

The drum keeper: Rosemary Berens (Ojibwe)

"How's everybody doing tonight?": Marcus Frejo, aka Quese IMC (Pawnee/Seminole)

Tales from Pine Ridge: Karen Artichoker, with Heath Ducheneaux and Dwanna Oldson (Lakota)

"Get over it!" and other suggestions: Patty Talahongva (Hopi)

The former president: Claudia Vigil-Muniz (Jicarilla Apache)

Practicing medicine: Harrison Baheshone (Navajo)

The kin of Sacajawea: Emma George and Summer Morning Baldwin (Lemhi Shoshone)

Indian humor: Carol Craig (Yakama)

Powwow power: Tom Phillips (Kiowa)

Relearning for life: Henry Frank (Yurok)

Eskimo ice cream: Christine Guy (Yup'ik)

Aloha from Hawai'i : Charles Ka'upu Jr.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813549651

0813549655

OCLC:

648148063