Sunday, December 30, 2012
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“ The growing and dying of the moon reminds us of our ignorance which comes and goes—but when the moon is full it is as if the Great Spirit were upon the whole world. ”
—Black Elk, Oglala Sioux
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jack d. forbes Novel: red blood
Jack d. forbes, red blood
jack d. forbes, university of california, davis, professor of native american studies. I'm starting with one of his scholarly books, "The American Discovery of Europe" and also his only novel, "Red Blood." I am really impressed by the novel. It is written in the peripatetic motif popularized in the English tradition by Smolett, but found also in that sperm-seed of western literature, Don Quixote. So, nothing much happens, there is no suspensful 'plot,' but the protagonist, Jesse, travels around and meets different people of various native american backgrounds, reflects on what he sees, and gains insight into what it means to be native american, or part-native american, at this particular juncture in time.
It seems to me he covers every possible permutation.
It's a great loss that Jack Forbes has recently died, in February 2011, because he was clearly a man of great insight with a basically gentle attitude toward differences, a lot of love, compassion and intelligence. A jewel. He was of Powhatan-Renape and Lenape background, which may mean he looked more brown or more white than the popular conception of what 'Native American' looks like. He writes a LOT about all the various shades of color and subtleties of feature found in our population. Young white readers, in particular, (from what I've seen in the comments on blogs that deal with these issues) often find this kind of writing 'racist,' but really, it's just revealing the racism that is already there in our society, but goes unacknowledged. There's been a fairly large acknowledgement of the racism heir to the plantation-slavery of Africans prior to the Civil War, but there is less awareness of the widespread slavery prior to the rise of the South's cotton industry. Slavery or indentured servitude were very common throughout the thirteen colonies and early states and involved white, black and red persons, who often united in bands of community and through marriage. Their descendents, along with the descendants of many later immigrants, form the 'unentitled' masses of America.
For people who fall into that latter category, 'Red Blood' is a helpful book. For people like myself, with perhaps only a smidgen of native blood but a fairly wide streak of influence from the native forbears, it is comforting to see just where these influences come from, and that we have a sort of 'right' to our beliefs and our lifestyle. We are not simply somehow defective white people or 'anti-social' or whatever label might have been applied to us in our difference. We are not simply 'black' Americans, either, but that is someone else's story to tell, not mine.
For myself, to look at me, I understand why no one would credit that I am part-native american, or part African, even though my dna tests show that, and my family (barely) acknowledged it, regarding it as something too precious to share abroad, only eliciting criticism, ridicule or negativity. Rather, our truth was like a precious pearl kept secret in a special container deep inside our home. Anyway, I'm not going to try to convince anybody - about myself, I mean. It will be a fairly private thing for me, and an online post doesn't really change that.
I look forward to reading more Jack Forbes and I encourage you to read him too.
It seems to me he covers every possible permutation.
It's a great loss that Jack Forbes has recently died, in February 2011, because he was clearly a man of great insight with a basically gentle attitude toward differences, a lot of love, compassion and intelligence. A jewel. He was of Powhatan-Renape and Lenape background, which may mean he looked more brown or more white than the popular conception of what 'Native American' looks like. He writes a LOT about all the various shades of color and subtleties of feature found in our population. Young white readers, in particular, (from what I've seen in the comments on blogs that deal with these issues) often find this kind of writing 'racist,' but really, it's just revealing the racism that is already there in our society, but goes unacknowledged. There's been a fairly large acknowledgement of the racism heir to the plantation-slavery of Africans prior to the Civil War, but there is less awareness of the widespread slavery prior to the rise of the South's cotton industry. Slavery or indentured servitude were very common throughout the thirteen colonies and early states and involved white, black and red persons, who often united in bands of community and through marriage. Their descendents, along with the descendants of many later immigrants, form the 'unentitled' masses of America.
For people who fall into that latter category, 'Red Blood' is a helpful book. For people like myself, with perhaps only a smidgen of native blood but a fairly wide streak of influence from the native forbears, it is comforting to see just where these influences come from, and that we have a sort of 'right' to our beliefs and our lifestyle. We are not simply somehow defective white people or 'anti-social' or whatever label might have been applied to us in our difference. We are not simply 'black' Americans, either, but that is someone else's story to tell, not mine.
For myself, to look at me, I understand why no one would credit that I am part-native american, or part African, even though my dna tests show that, and my family (barely) acknowledged it, regarding it as something too precious to share abroad, only eliciting criticism, ridicule or negativity. Rather, our truth was like a precious pearl kept secret in a special container deep inside our home. Anyway, I'm not going to try to convince anybody - about myself, I mean. It will be a fairly private thing for me, and an online post doesn't really change that.
I look forward to reading more Jack Forbes and I encourage you to read him too.
jack d. forbes, red blood - Great Grandmother's Blog
Link: http://knitandcontemplation.typepad.com/great_grandmothers_blog/2011/04/jack-d-forbes-red-blood.html
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Nerburn, KentThe Wolf at Twilight : an Indian Elder's Journey Through a Land of Ghosts and Shadows
The author finds himself back on the Lakota reservation where he traveled more than a decade before with a tribal elder named Dan. This touching, funny, and haunting journey goes deep into mysteries of reservation boarding-schools, sweat lodges, and the isolated homesteads of the Dakota hills.
2009
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Northrup, JimAnishinaabe Syndicated : a View from the Rez
Northrup, an Anishinaabe writer, takes a humorous look at life on and off the Fond do Lac Reservation in northern Minnesota, including traditional ricing and fishing, pow wows and casinos, family relationships, politics, pets, boarding schools, and travel. 2012 Minnesota Book Award nominee.
2011
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Peacock, Thomas D.Ojibwe Waasa Inaabidaa = We Look in All Directions
Chronicles the history and culture of the Ojibwe people. Peacock, an Ojibwe himself, discusses the written language of the Ojibwe, their 500-mile migration to Northern Michigan from the St. Lawrence River valley, their struggles with the U.S. Government over sovereignty and land issues, and other historical issues.
2002
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Peltier, LeonardPrison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance
Incarcerated for the last twenty-four years, the Native American activist shares his life story, as well as philosophical views on prison and how it has affected him.
1999
Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography)
Razor, PeterWhile the Locust Slept
This memoir, written when the author was 73 years old, won a Minnesota Book Award. Razor describes his experiences as an orphan growing up at the State Public School in Owatonna and the severe abuse he suffered. As an adult, he gained strength from researching his Native American heritage.
2001
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Swift, TomChief Bender's Burden : the Silent Struggle of a Baseball Star
The story of Bender's improbable journey--from his early years on the White Earth Reservation, to his development at the Carlisle Indian School, to his big break and eventual rise to the pinnacle of baseball.
2008
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Treuer, AntonThe Assassination of Hole in the Day
Explores the murder of the controversial Ojibwe chief who led his people through the first difficult years of dispossession by white invaders—and created a new kind of leadership for the Ojibwe. A Minnesota Book Award nominee.
2011
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Treuer, Anton.Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians but Were Afraid to Ask
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2012
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Treuer, David.Rez Life : an Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life
Celebrated novelist David Treuer has brings a novelist’s storytelling skill and an eye for detail to a complex and subtle examination of Native American reservation life, past and present.
2012
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Vizenor, Gerald RobertThe Everlasting Sky: Voices of the Anishinabe People
This classic collection of essays portrays the peoples and political times on northern reservations in the 1970s. Many of the writings are drawn from the author’s experiences growing up on the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota.
2000
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Warren, William W.History of the Ojibway People
For the first time since its initial publication in 1885, this classic text is now available with new annotations. Warren collected firsthand descriptions and stories from relatives, tribal leaders, and acquaintances and transcribed this oral history of the Ojibwe.
2009
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Weatherford, J. McIverIndian Givers : How Native Americans Transformed the World
Chronicles 500 years of contributions from the Indians of the Americas by anthropologist Jack Weatherford, including our federal government, democratic institutions, modern medicine, agriculture, architecture, and ecology.
2010
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White, Bruce M.We are at Home : Pictures of the Ojibwe People
A fascinating history of the Ojibwe people at home in the Minnesota landscape through 1950--as told through more than 200 vivid photographs.
2007
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Wilson, Diane, 1954-Beloved Child : a Dakota Way of Life
Through interviews with cultural activists and Dakota elders, Dianne Wilson, tells stories of restoration and reconciliation, and the efforts of modern Native American activists to empower their people in the wake of genocide and the forced enculturation of the boarding school system.
2011
Adult Nonfiction Book
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Anderson, Gary Clayton
Through Dakota Eyes: Narrative Accounts of the Minnesota Indian War of 1862
This volume documents the Minnesota Dakota War of 1862 as witnessed by Dakota Indians. Each powerful personal account is preceded by a biographical sketch; some photographs and sketches included.
1988
Adult Nonfiction Book
Black Elk
Black Elk Speaks : Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
Lakota Holy Man Black Elk tells -- through poet John Niehardt -- the story of his own life and his people during the late 19th century. First published in 1932, this classic book documents Lakota life and passes along Black Elk's visions.
1988
Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography)
Brave Bird, Mary
Lakota Woman
The deeply moving story of a woman's triumphant struggle to survive on the South Dakota Rosebud Reservation, to joining the revolution for Native American rights during the 1960s and 1970s.
1994
Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography)
Brown, Dee Alexander
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
This classic "Indian history of the American West" documents the atrocities committed against Native Americans in the late nineteenth century. This book contains many primary sources, including photographs, testimonies and transcripts from Native American leaders.
1971
Adult Nonfiction Book
Christgau, John.
Birch Coulie : the Epic Battle of the Dakota War
The account of the war between white settlers and the Dakota Indians in Minnesota examines two communities torn by internal dissent and external threat. The book also delves into the aftermath, during which thirty-eight Dakota men were hanged without legal representation or the appearance of defense witnesses, the largest mass execution in American history. With its unusually nuanced perspective, Birch Coulie brings clarity and insight to a critical moment in the troubled history of the American West.
2012
Adult Nonfiction Book
Cohen, Ken
Honoring the Medicine: The Essential Guide to Native American Healing
Written by a master of alternative healing practices, "Honoring the Medicine" gathers together an abundance of information about every aspect of Native American medicine and healing philosophy.
2003
Adult Nonfiction Book
Deloria, Vine
Singing for a Spirit : a Portrait of the Dakota Sioux
Follows the story of the Deloria family, whose existence was engulfed and forever changed by the westward expansion of the United States.
1999
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Erdrich, Heid. E. and Laura Tohe, eds.
Sister Nations: Native American Women Writers on Community
In this energetic anthology of poetry, essays and fiction, Native American women examine their lives and their connection to community. Contributors include well-known and lesser-known contemporary Native American women writers from a variety of tribes.
2002
Adult Nonfiction Book
Erdrich, Louise
Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country
The critically acclaimed author describes her journey back to the islands of her ancestors in Ontario, offering a compelling portrait of Ojibwe language, culture, spirits, traditions, and art as she visits centuries-old rock paintings and recalls her own family and contemporary life.
2003
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Graves, Kathy Davis
Indians in Minnesota
A historical and contemporary account of Ojibwe and Dakota Indians living in both reservation and urban settings is provided in this resource that examines the significant changes and continuing needs of Indians in the twenty-first century.
2006
Adult Nonfiction Book
Gwynne, S. C.
Empire of the Summer Moon : Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
A stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centering on Quanah, the greatest Comanche chief of them all.
2010
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Harjo, Joy
A Map to the Next World : Poetry and Tales
In Her Fifth book, Joy Harjo, one of our foremost Native American voices, melds memories, dream visions, myths, and stories from America's brutal history into a poetic whole.
2000
Adult Nonfiction Book
Hearth, Amy Hill
"Strong Medicine" Speaks : a Native American Elder Has her Say : an Oral History
Chronicles the life of Marion "Strong Medicine" Gould, a Lenni-Lenape, or Delaware, Indian, tracing her ancestry back to the 1520s and describing her experiences growing up and raising a family in New Jersey during the twentieth century.
2008
Adult Nonfiction Book
Heat Moon, William Least
Roads to Quoz : an American Mosey
Recounts the author's three-month 13,000-mile road trip on the back roads of small-town America, during which he uncovers a nation deep in character, story, and charm.
2008
Adult Nonfiction Book
Hogan, Linda
The Woman Who Watches Over the World: A Native Memoir
Hogan, a Chicksaw novelist and poet, chronicles her difficult upbringing, blending her personal story with a broader history of Native American experience. Although it describes many painful incidents, the narrative is beautiful and hopeful.
2001
Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography)
Jones, Lisa
Broken : a Love Story : Horses Humans and Redemption On the Wind River Indian Reservation
A journalist describes how she overcame personal challenges through a relationship with a famous Arapahoe quadriplegic horse trainer from whom the author learned spiritually transforming life lessons and came to deeply love Wyoming's Native American culture.
2009
Adult Nonfiction Book
LaDuke, Winona
Recovering the Sacred : the Power of Naming and Claiming
Well-known Native activist scholar/two-time Green Party vice-presidential candidate examines how her White Earth tribe is reclaiming their spiritual heritage from cultural imperialism. Reviving the traditional diet and seeking out earth-friendly energy sources are key elements of this healing process.
2005
Adult Nonfiction Book
Lancaster, Daniel
John Beargrease : Legend of Minnesota's North Shore
This biographical account follows legendary Beargrease through the settlement and development of the North Shore on his difficult traverse from traditional Anishinabe life to the modern world.
2009
Adult Nonfiction Book
Mann, Charles C.
1491 : New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
A groundbreaking analysis of America prior to 1492 describes how the research of archaeologists and anthropologists has transformed myths about the Americas. Not only was the population greater than Europe, but the cultures were also far older and more advanced than previously known.
2005
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McNab, Chris
Warriors of the World : the Native American Warrior 1500-1890 CE
Surveys the training, tools and strategies of Native American fighters from large and remote tribes, examining in lavishly illustrated detail their equipment, disparate combat techniques and influence on European and American technology.
2010
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