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The Surrounded (Zia Book) (Zia Books)
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Paperback. Num Pages: 305 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 380.
As this book opens, Archilde Leon has just returned from the big city to his father's ranch on the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana. The story that unfolds captures the intense and varied conflicts that already characterised reservation life in 1936, when this remarkable novel was first published. Educated at a federal Indian boarding school, Archilde is torn not only between white and Indian cultures but between love for his Spanish father and his Indian mother, who in her old age is rejecting white culture and religion to return to the ways of her people. Archilde's young contemporaries meanwhile are ... Read more
As this book opens, Archilde Leon has just returned from the big city to his father's ranch on the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana. The story that unfolds captures the intense and varied conflicts that already characterised reservation life in 1936, when this remarkable novel was first published. Educated at a federal Indian boarding school, Archilde is torn not only between white and Indian cultures but between love for his Spanish father and his Indian mother, who in her old age is rejecting white culture and religion to return to the ways of her people. Archilde's young contemporaries meanwhile are ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1978
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
305
Place of Publication
Albuquerque, NM, United States
ISBN
9780826304698
SKU
V9780826304698
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Ref
99-1
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