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In the land of the grasshopper song : two women in the Klamath River Indian country in 1908-09 / by Mary Ellicott Arnold and Mabel Reed.
- Title
- In the land of the grasshopper song : two women in the Klamath River Indian country in 1908-09 / by Mary Ellicott Arnold and Mabel Reed.
- Author
- Arnold, Mary Ellicott
- Publication
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1980] c1957.
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- Description
- 313 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- In 1908 easterners Mary Ellicott Arnold and Mabel Reed accepted appointments as field matrons in Karuk tribal communities in the Klamath and Salmon River country of northern California. In doing so, they joined a handful of white women in a rugged region that retained the frontier mentality of the gold rush some fifty years earlier. Hired to promote the federal government's assimilation of American Indians, Arnold and Reed instead found themselves adapting to the world they entered, a complex and contentious territory of Anglo miners and Karuk families.
- In the Land of the Grasshopper Song, Arnold and Reed's account of their experiences, shows their irreverence towards Victorian ideals of womanhood, recounts their respect toward and friendship with Karuks, and offers a rare portrait of women's western experiences in this era. Writing with self-deprecating humor, the women recall their misadventures as women in a white man's country and as whites in Indian country. A story about crossing cultural divides, In the Land of the Grasshopper Song also documents Karuk resilience despite seemingly insurmountable odds.
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- Note
- Reprint of the ed. published by Vantage Press, New York.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The unmapped way, and how, finally, we hit the trail, and the mountains closed around us -- Innocents abroad in the land of the white man -- We cross the river into Indian country -- The course of true love, Indian way -- Indians at home, when there ain't no growl, nor no trouble -- Indians at home: The Essie growl and the Essie growl and the water growl -- Innocents abroad on the professional trail -- The ford at Siwillup -- Indian gambling, and other topics of the day in Indian country -- We make the world over and leave out something -- Everybody got trouble when the world is made wrong, Indians and everybody -- We hit the trail for points east, with all the glories of iced tea, iced coffee, fried chicken, and ice cream in the offing -- Return to the rivers: Everybody got trouble, white people and everybody -- Moving day on the Klamath -- Indians at home in up-river country -- The baby growl -- We introduce white customs in the form of two Christmas trees, and, for a moment, fear we may regret it -- Ti postheree -- The open trail -- The schoolmarms come down like wolves on Yreka, and then celebrate the Fourth in Indian country -- We cross Marble Mountain and find the Indian ain't get no chance in white men's country -- The great Deerskin Dance -- Farewell to the Klamath -- I-to Poo-a-rum.
- Illustrations: Mary on Sally -- On the trail. Mabel on Jane -- Carrie -- Kate -- Agnes -- A-su-na-pee -- Steve brought along his drum -- Steve at the Deerskin Dance -- George McCash as one of the dancers -- Dumphrey, with a flint, at the Deerskin Dance -- the Salmon River, where rocks, hidden and in full sight, make it too dangerous for animals to swim -- The pack train -- Somesbar as seen from the Salmon River -- Luther Hickox with White Puppy -- Steve and his nephew, Swanny Pete -- Essie -- The Deerskin Dance -- Les in Indian dress -- Papa and Mama Frame with Mama's little helper -- Grandma at Kot-e-meen -- Our house at Kot-e-meen -- Eddy and Nero -- Our house at I-ees-i-rum -- Mabel and Mr. Darcy -- Fort Jones in the early days -- Annie, shown with some of her beautiful baskets -- Mrs. Mayhew -- Mart -- Ossi-Puk -- Cabin of the Essie family -- the ranch at Orleans -- Orleans Bar -- Packing a live pig across the swing bridge -- The swift-flowing Salmon River.
- ISBN
- 0803218044
- 0803267037 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^80012556^
- OCLC
- 6143499
- SCSB-11594622
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- Harvard Library