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American Indian Autobiography
III H. David Brumble
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Description for American Indian Autobiography
Paperback. A cultural kaleidoscope of autobiographical narratives from a wide range of American Indians - warriors, farmers, Christian converts, rebels and assimilationists, peyotists, shamans, hunters, Sun Dancers, artists and Hollywood Indians, spiritualists, visionaries, mothers, fathers, and English professors. Num Pages: 304 pages, 1 halftone; 2 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 413.
American Indian Autobiography is a kind of cultural kaleidoscope whose narratives come to us from a wide range of American Indians: warriors, farmers, Christian converts, rebels and assimilationists, peyotists, shamans, hunters, Sun Dancers, artists and Hollywood Indians, spiritualists, visionaries, mothers, fathers, and English professors. Many of these narratives are as-told-to autobiographies, and those who labored to set them down in writing are nearly as diverse as their subjects. Black Elk had a poet for his amanuensis; Maxidiwiac, a Hidatsa farmer who worked her fields with a bone-blade hoe, had an anthropologist. Two Leggings, the man who led the last Crow ... Read more
American Indian Autobiography is a kind of cultural kaleidoscope whose narratives come to us from a wide range of American Indians: warriors, farmers, Christian converts, rebels and assimilationists, peyotists, shamans, hunters, Sun Dancers, artists and Hollywood Indians, spiritualists, visionaries, mothers, fathers, and English professors. Many of these narratives are as-told-to autobiographies, and those who labored to set them down in writing are nearly as diverse as their subjects. Black Elk had a poet for his amanuensis; Maxidiwiac, a Hidatsa farmer who worked her fields with a bone-blade hoe, had an anthropologist. Two Leggings, the man who led the last Crow ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803217492
SKU
V9780803217492
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About III H. David Brumble
H. David Brumble III is a professor of English and religious studies at the University of Pittsburgh and is the author of several books, including, most recently, Classical Myths and Legends in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
Reviews for American Indian Autobiography
“Students and specialists alike, in Native American literature or history, or in the field of autobiography, will derive much value from Brumble’s lucid and penetrating study, and the annotated list he provides of the many autobiographies mentioned in the book will prove a helpful and stimulating guide to further research.”—Bernard A. Hirsch, University of Kansas “This book on the nature ... Read more