Growing Up Native American: An Anthology
by Riley, Patricia (Edited and with an Introduction by)
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 068811850X
- ISBN 13
- 9780688118501
- Seller
-
Ashmore, Queensland, Australia
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20 pieces about comming of age as a North American Indian, by such writers as Leslie Silko, N. Scott Momaday, Louise Erdrich,Michael Dorris.Brief introductions by Riley for stories rangeing from a 19th-century boy's first buffalo hunt to todays memoirs of childhoods scarred by poverty, racism and abuse,fiction,nonfiction from the U.S. and Canada.Geary Hobson adds parts of novel about Indian family relationships in Arkansas,Simon Ortiz writes about the difficult transition from Acoma language to English,also John Joseph Mathews shows an Osage boys struggle with Christianity in 1920s in his book, Showdown.
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- Bookseller
- Lawrence Jones (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 023727
- Title
- Growing Up Native American: An Anthology
- Author
- Riley, Patricia (Edited and with an Introduction by)
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 068811850X
- ISBN 13
- 9780688118501
- Publisher
- William Morrow
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1993
- Keywords
- Indians of North Aerica Children Ethnic Identity American Literature American Authors Black Elk Leslie Marmon Silko Michael Dorris Louise Erdrich N Scott Momaday Linday Hogan Basil Johnston
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography; Anthropology, Sociology, womens/mens issues; Americana & Canadiana;
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