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Indian voices : listening to Native Americans / Alison Owings.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2011.Description: xxv, 363 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0813549655 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9780813549651 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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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.
Summary: A contemporary oral history documenting what Native Americans from 16 different tribal nations say about themselves and the world around them.
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In Indian Voices , Alison Owings takes readers on a fresh journey across America, east to west, north to south, and around again. Owings's most recent oral history--engagingly written in a style that entertains and informs--documents what Native Americans say about themselves, their daily lives, and the world around them.

Young and old from many tribal nations speak with candor, insight, and (unknown to many non-Natives) humor about what it is like to be a Native American in the twenty-first century. Through intimate interviews many also express their thoughts about the sometimes staggeringly ignorant, if often well-meaning, non-Natives they encounter--some who do not realize Native Americans still exist, much less that they speak English, have cell phones, use the Internet, and might attend powwows and power lunches.

Indian Voices, an inspiring and important contribution to the literature about the original Americans, will make every reader rethink the past--and present--of the United States.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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

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