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[Review Of] Karl H. Schlesier. The Wolves Of Heaven: Cheyenne Shamanism, Ceremonies, And Prehistoric Origins, William Willard
[Review Of] Karl H. Schlesier. The Wolves Of Heaven: Cheyenne Shamanism, Ceremonies, And Prehistoric Origins, William Willard
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Schlesier has a necessary footnote advisory to readers explaining the way in which he has structured The Wolves of Heaven. In the advisory Schelesier [Schlesier] writes that the book is a slow read on purpose so as to develop the story of how it was that the Tsistsistas (Cheyenne), came out of the boreal forest to become hunters of the northern plains, evolving eventually into the 19th century Tsistsistas bison hunting horse nomads.
[Review Of] Okah Tubbee. The Life Of Okah Tubbee, William A. Bloodworth Jr
[Review Of] Okah Tubbee. The Life Of Okah Tubbee, William A. Bloodworth Jr
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It is difficult to know what to make of The Life of Okah Tubbee because it is difficult to know what to make of Okah Tubbee. In the 1840s and 1850s he was a performing musician, a ventriloquist, and an "Indian doctor." He claimed to be a Choctaw chief’s son who, somehow, had begun life as a slave in Natchez, Mississippi. His autobiography, possibly written by his wife (possibly of Delaware and Mohawk extraction), appeared in several formats and editions in 1848 and 1852.
[Review Of] Jo Ann Robinson. The Montgomery Bus Boycott And The Women Who Started It: The Memoirs Of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson, Keith D. Miller, Elizabeth Vander Lei
[Review Of] Jo Ann Robinson. The Montgomery Bus Boycott And The Women Who Started It: The Memoirs Of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson, Keith D. Miller, Elizabeth Vander Lei
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Jo Ann Robinson, a major organizer of the Montgomery bus boycott, offers a new and convincing account of the origins of the protest that triggered the entire civil rights movement and launched the career of Martin Luther King, Jr. In an absorbing, first-hand narrative, the dignified and unassuming Robinson focuses on the role of the Women's Political Council (WPC) and details the WPC's plans to engineer a boycott months before the heralded arrest of Rosa Parks.
[Review Of] Paul C. P. Siu. The Chinese Laundryman: A Study Of Social Isolation, Susie Ling
[Review Of] Paul C. P. Siu. The Chinese Laundryman: A Study Of Social Isolation, Susie Ling
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There are two tales behind Paul Siu's The Chinese Laundryman: A Study of Social Isolation. It is his detailed insider's description and analysis of the Chinese Americans who were commonly tracked into this occupation prior to World War II. The immigrant laundrymen of Chinatown worked long hours for low wages and predominantly remained isolated from mainstream Anglo society. This recent publication of Siu's 1953 dissertation is also the story of a son of a Chinese laundryman who immigrated to the United States in 1927 and became a student of Ernest Burgess at the University of Chicago School of Sociology dominated …
[Review Of] Richard E. Meyer, Ed. Cemeteries And Gravemarkers: Voices Of American Culture, David M. Gradwohl
[Review Of] Richard E. Meyer, Ed. Cemeteries And Gravemarkers: Voices Of American Culture, David M. Gradwohl
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The twelve individual essays contained in this volume were originally presented as papers in the Cemeteries and Gravestones Section at a conference of the American Culture Association. A short foreword by James Deetz, an early leader in the anthropological study of New England cemeteries from the colonial period, provides some instructive initial insights into the wealth of cultural information which can be derived from the study of mortuary behavior in the United States. Meyer's thoughtful introduction and his topical bibliography, though not exhaustive, will be of considerable utility for those wishing to pursue the research topic further. An index along …
[Review Of] Gary Soto. Small Faces, Carl R. Shirley
[Review Of] Gary Soto. Small Faces, Carl R. Shirley
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This slim, superb collection is Soto's second foray into the field of prose (Living Up The Street: Narrative Recollections was the 1985 American Book Award winner). The thirty-one vignettes in Small Faces, written in December, 1983, and between June and August, 1984, are imbued with warmth, charm, and nostalgia. They touch subjects such as human nature, human relationships, and love, all from a very personal viewpoint that of the author. During the course of the book, we come to know the poet, his wife and daughter, and his friends. Selections treat the narrator's college days, travel, poetry and philosophy, as …