Research Catalog

Title

Indian voices : listening to Native Americans / Alison Owings.

Author

Owings, Alison.

Publication

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2011.

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Description

xxv, 363 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

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

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Indians of North America > Biography
• Indians of North America > Cultural assimilation
• Indians of North America > Ethnic identity
• Indians of North America > Social conditions
• Indians, Treatment of > North America

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9780813549651 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0813549655 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2010028683

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library