The Heartsong of Charging Elk
by Welch, James
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Like New/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0385496745
- ISBN 13
- 9780385496742
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About This Item
Doubleday Books, 2000. Hardcover. Like New/Very Good . 6x1x9. Inspired by actual historical fact, James Welch's tells the story of an Oglala Sioux who travels the extraordinary geographical and cultural distance from tribal life in the Black Hills of South Dakota to existence on the streets of Marseille. As a young boy, Charging Elk witnessed his people's massacre of Custer's Seventh Cavalry at Little Big Horn, followed by years of futile fighting and wandering until the Sioux were finally lured to the Pine Ridge reservation. But he prefers life in the Stronghold, living by his wits and skills in the old way. James Phillip Welch Jr. (1940 - 2003), who grew up within the Blackfeet and A'aninin cultures of his parents, was a Native American novelist and poet, considered a founding author of the Native American Renaissance. His novel Fools Crow (1986) received several national literary awards, and his debut novel Winter in the Blood (1974) was adapted as a film by the same name, released in 2013. In 1997 Welch received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas.
Synopsis
James Welch is the author of four previous novels, including Fools Crow , which won the American Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. He attended schools on the Blackfeet and Fort Belknap reservations and studied writing under the legendary teacher Richard Hugo. He lives with his wife in Missoula, Montana.
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- Bookseller
- Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU2010029432
- Title
- The Heartsong of Charging Elk
- Author
- Welch, James
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New Like New
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0385496745
- ISBN 13
- 9780385496742
- Publisher
- Doubleday Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2000
- Size
- 6x1x9
- X weight
- 26 oz
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