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Author Owings, Alison.

Title Indian voices : listening to Native Americans / Alison Owings.

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

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Non-Fiction  970.004 Owi    ---  Available
Description xxv, 363 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-343) and index.
Summary A contemporary oral history documenting what Native Americans from 16 different tribal nations say about themselves and the world around them.
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.
Source NBK 8/11 PPL
Subject Indians of North America -- Ethnic identity.
Indians of North America -- Social conditions.
Indians of North America -- Cultural assimilation.
Indians, Treatment of -- North America.
Indians of North America -- Biography.
ISBN 9780813549651
0813549655

 
    
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