Growing up Native American : An Anthology

Name: Growing up Native American : An Anthology
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ISBN: 9780688118501

ISBN-10: 068811850X

ISBN-13: 9780688118501

Edition: 1st

Authors: Patricia Riley, Ines Hernandez

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A collection of writings about childhood--short fiction pieces and essays--by 22 Native American writers, from the 19th century to the 1990s, each briefly introduced. The editor is a poet and fiction writer of Irish and Cherokee descent. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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List price: $23.00
Edition: 1st
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 333
Size: 6.50" wide x 10.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Foreword: Reflections on Identity and Culture	p. 7
Introduction	p. 21
Going Forward, Looking Back	p. 27
"The Language We Know"	p. 29
"The Warriors"	p. 39
The Nineteenth Century	p. 55
From Waterlily	p. 57
From Life Among the Piutes	p. 73
"Ni-Bo-Wi-Se-Gwe"	p. 87
"Wasichus in the Hills"	p. 97
"At Last I Kill a Buffalo"	p. 107
Schooldays	p. 115
From The Middle Five: Indian Schoolboys of the Omaha Tribe	p. 117
From Lame Deer: Seeker of Visions	p. 135
From Love Medicine	p. 151
"A Day in the Life of Spanish"	p. 167
Twentieth Century	p. 189
From Sundown	p. 191
From Mean Spirit	p. 203
From The Names: A Memoir	p. 215
"Notes of a Translator's Son"	p. 237
"Turbulent Childhood"	p. 247
"The Talking That Trees Does"	p. 263
"Water Witch"	p. 273
"Grace"	p. 279
"Uncle Tony's Goat"	p. 299
From Yellow Raft in Blue Water	p. 307
"The Ballad of Plastic Fred"	p. 325
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