| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xvi, 47 pages ; 23 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Contents |
Introduction: Letter to General Pratt -- Prologue: Once You Were Signed Up -- "Kill the Indian, Save the Man" -- Our Tongues Slapped into Silence -- The Names -- Cat or Stomp -- She's Real Quiet, a Letter from the Indian School I -- Joe Babes -- The Mane Story -- Christianity Hopping -- The Sacrament -- Popeye's Kitchen, A Letter from the Indian School II -- Woolworths -- Sometimes Those Pueblo Men Can Sure Be Coyotes -- Mennen Skin Bracer -- Dancing Boots -- Visiting Cabbage Ears, A Letter from the Indian School III -- Covert Lover or How My Naa'ashood Days Ended -- So I Blow Smoke in Her Face -- Collage -- No Parole Today -- Conversations in passing -- My Brother Shakes the Bottle -- Body Identified -- Newspaper Deaths -- The Shooting -- No Parole Today -- Sometimes She Dreams -- Little Sister -- Half-Light -- Oil -- When the Moon Died -- Easter Sunday -- At Mexican Springs. |
| Summary |
Presents a series of poems and prose writings by Laura Tohe in which she chronicles her childhood on the reservation in Arizona and New Mexico, focusing on the U.S. government's policy to assimilate Native Americans into white culture. |
| Subject |
Indians of North America -- Poetry.
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Navajo poetry.
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Indians of North America. (OCoLC)fst00969633
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Navajo poetry. (OCoLC)fst01034900
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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Poetry.
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| ISBN |
0931122937 |
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9780931122934 |
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