Voices in the drum : narratives from the Native American past / R. David Edmunds.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edmunds, R. David (Russell David), 1939- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--History--Fiction.

Indians of North America.

Genre:

Fiction.

Historical fiction.

History.

Short stories.

Physical Description:

xvii, 330 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Norman, OK : University of Oklahoma Press, [2023]

Summary:

"Features nine stories, each focusing on a fictional character who is a composite of historical indigenous Americans. Spanning human history in North America from the 1400s to the late 1900s, the fictional characters interact with real historical figures and participate in actual events, giving readers a sense of how tribal peoples reacted to the disruptive changes forced on them by European colonizers and U.S. government policies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. City-States and Sleeping Serpents: Pre-Columbian North America Reconsidered

2. Whispering Women and Shadowed Faces: Cultural Change and Commerce in the Western Great Lakes

3. Crooked Legs Walk No More: Women, Buffalo, and Horses

4. Herons Who Wait at the Spelawe-Thepee: The Ohio River and the Shawnee World

5. Westbrooks Awash on a Trail of Tears: Tragedy and Tenacity in the Cherokee Nation

6. Jumping Deer and New Badgers Still Walk in the Smoke: Perseverance in California

7. Flower Girls, Fires, and Sausages: Surviving the Boarding School Gauntlet

8. Summer Hawks in Concrete Canyons: Relocation and Its Aftermath

9. Moving with the Seasons, Not Fixed in Stone: The Evolution of Native American Identity.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780806192765

0806192763

9780806192772

0806192771

OCLC:

1376915440