The Everlasting Sky: New Voices from the People Named the Chippewa

184 Pages·1972·18.857 MB·English

by  Gerald Vizenor

$4.95
THE EVERLASTING SKY
NEW VOICES FROM
THE PEOPLE NAMED
THE CHIPPEWA
by Gerald Vizenor
In Gerald Vizenor’s thoughtful and
provocative account of the Chippewa
Indians of Minnesota, the oshki ani-
shinabe (new people of the wood-
land) speak about home and
family,
city and reservation, law enforcement
and education. They tell of elders who
are afraid of change, of young people
who
are out of touch with their past
and drop out in the present, and of
men and women who
are asserting
anishinabe identity and trying to re-
claim their heritage.
After readers share the anger and
dreams and fears of these oshki ani-
shinabe speakers, they wonder
will
what the words Indian and Chippewa
really mean, and will reconsider them
and the stereotypes they represent.
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Department
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RFD #4
Montpelier,
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The Everlasting Sky

The
Sky
Everlasting
New
Voices from the People
Named Chippewa
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by Gerald Vizenor
Crowell-Collier Press
New York, New York
London
Collier-Macmillan l>td.,
Copyright (c) 1972 Gerald Vizenor
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or
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Publisher.
The Macmillan C’ompany, S66 Third Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022
C ollier-Macmillan Canada Ltd. Toronto, Ontario
,
Library of Congress catalog card number: 70-189729
Printed in the United States of America
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Ihe author wishes to thank Ted D. Mahtofor [yermission to include
his poem Uncle Tomahaw k and passa^ies from his novelCry in the Night
and William J. Lawrenceforpermission to quotefrom his research pape
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“Legu/ Systems ofthe Red Lake Reservation.
Ihe e.\tfacts on pp. 1-4. >9-60, 62. and 70 arefrom anishinabe
adisokan. Copyright© 1970 hy Gerald Vi:enor: those i>n pp. 7. 4.L
>1. 6>. 109. and /.O (ory/o/n anishinabe nagamon. Copyright
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I96> hy Gcndd Robert Vi:enor. Copyrii>ht © 1970 by Gerald Vizenor.
Litle pugc.'Ihe pictomyth shows the human heart, with
varying lines for human feeling.
The author and publisher wish to acknowledge
the contribution of Stan Steiner
in making this book possible.
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