Trigger Dance [electronic resource].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glancy, Diane.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Fiction.

Indians of North America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (138 p.)

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

1990 Winner of the Mildren P. Nilon Award for Minority FictionIn Trigger Dance, her first collection of stories, Diane Glancy takes us to uneasy places where both the environment and the characters are at risk, where even the animals grieve. Sometimes the author's voice, sometimes the voices of the characters, tell us about their migrations, symbolic or literal. Diane Glancy's characters walk in two worlds and try to build a middle ground between white and native cultures. They are the offspring of those who survived the Trail of Tears. Some of the young men dance at powwows in tune with the d

Contents:

Anadarko Pow Wow; Aunt Parnetta's Electric Blisters; Keyo; Trying on the Hat; Broken Spell; A Sense of Continuity and Presence; Yote U Ey; The Voluble Rap; Holation; Regretfully; The Orchard; In This Mission School; Trigger Dance

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-57366-858-3