Screen LibraryConversations with remarkable Native Americans
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State University of New York Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Albany |
| Publication Dates: | 2012. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
SUNY series, Native traces |
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| Carrier Form: | li, 143 p.: ill. ; 26 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9781438441757 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1438441754 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | D771 |
| CLC: | D771.262 |
| Call Number: | D771.262/C766 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-131) and index. Tragic wisdom and survivance / Deborah L. Madsen -- From the forgotten American to indigenous rights / Joe lle Rostkowski -- Conversation with Gerald Vizenor, series editor, poet, novelist, and art critic -- Scott Momaday, poet, novelist, painter, and UNESCO artist for peace -- Suzan Harjo, policy advocate, journalist, and poet -- Richard West, lawyer and founding director of the National Museum of the American Indian -- Emil Her Many Horses, curator, National Museum of the American Indian -- Sven Haakanson, director of the Alutiiq Museum, Kodiak, Alaska -- Veronica Tiller, historian, consu This work is a collection of interviews with some of today's most important Native Americans. In these interviews, contextualized in a national and international sociopolitical perspective, the editor, a noted ethnohistorian brings to light major developments in the Native American experience over the last thirty years. Overcoming hardships they have experienced as a forgotten minority, often torn between two cultures, these native writers, artists, journalists, activists, lawyers, and museum administrators have each made contributions toward the transformation of old stereotypes, the fight |