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The Cherokee kid : Will Rogers, tribal identity, and the making of an American icon
- Title
- The Cherokee kid : Will Rogers, tribal identity, and the making of an American icon / Amy M. Ware.
- Author
- Ware, Amy M.
- Publication
- Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2015]
- Supplementary Content
- Cover image
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Details
- Description
- x, 317 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Ware's book challenges the common view that famous Oklahoman humorist Will Rogers (1879-1935) was disengaged from his Cherokee roots and/or that those roots were superfluous at best. Amy Ware, on the contrary, argues that Rogers's legitimate Cherokee heritage remained a self-defining aspect of his life, his work, and his principles"--
- Series Statement
- CultureAmerica
- Uniform Title
- Culture America.
- Subjects
- Entertainers
- Humorists, American
- Entertainers > United States > Biography
- Indians of North America > Ethnic identity
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
- United States
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies
- Rogers, Will, 1879-1935
- Humorists, American > Biography
- Biography
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Native Americans
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-300) and index.
- Call Number
- MWES (Rogers, W.) 15-4743
- ISBN
- 9780700621002
- 0700621008
- 9780700621019 (canceled/invalid)
- 0700621016 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2015006572
- OCLC
- 895730901
- Author
- Ware, Amy M., author.
- Title
- The Cherokee kid : Will Rogers, tribal identity, and the making of an American icon / Amy M. Ware.
- Publisher
- Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2015]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- CultureAmericaCulture America.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-300) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- MWES (Rogers, W.) 15-4743