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(0)Rennard Strickland
Author
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
"How do Native Americans maintain their identity and culture in a hostile society, and to what end? Tonto's Revenge is a passionate attempt by a leading Native American scholar to reassess the Indian world view and its importance to all Americans. His deeply felt essays project a vision of how Native Americans can recapture the power of their cultural legacies."--Publisher's description.
Author
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
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Language
English
Description
A Cherokee boyhood of the 1930's is remembered in generous, loving detail ... an unbelievably rich life.
Forrest Carter, from the age of four or five, was inseparable from his part-Cherokee grandfather, who owned a farm and ran a country store nearby. Granpa called him Little Sprout; when he grew taller, he became Little Tree. From Granpa he absorbed the Cherokee ethic; to give love without expecting gratitude, to take from the land only what you...
