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Indian Voices
Price (cloth): $26.95
Price (paper): $21.95
Subtitle:
Listening to Native Americans
Author:
Alison Owings
Subject: American
Studies
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4965-1
Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-5418-1
Pages: 320 pages
Publication Date: April 2011
Praise for Indian Voices
"Owings assembles interviews with Native Americans from across the nation that achieve a remarkable leval of intimacy. Her descriptions are rich in detail, her stories and statistics captivating. This engrossing, affecting book should be mandatory reading in American history classes."—Publisher's Weekly (Starred Review)
"A rich collection that is poignant, funny, heartbreaking, and very real. The vast diversity in Native America is evident. The book is engaging and thoughtfully conceived and effectively communicates Owings’s central thesis—that Native Americans are alive, well, and thriving and have much to teach and share with the rest of us. Recommended for all readers of nonfiction, and highly recommended for anyone living in or near Native communities."—Library Journal (starred review)
"Owings' chronicle is enlightening for all who wish to understand 'Where is Native America now?'"—Booklist
"Occasionally startling, often humorous, and always thought-provoking. A captivating book about contemporary Native American life."—San Jose Mercury News
"This is the United States of Native America at its best! Owings brilliantly weaves together the grassroots narratives and heart-felt stories that she gathered in her travels throughout Indian Country. The result is a stunning and eye-opening book, written in page-turning prose, that reveals the emotions, pains, and humor of Native Americans. Whether you know nothing about Indians or just want to know more, you need to read this book!"—Donald L. Fixico (Shawnee, Sac & Fox, Muscogee Creek, and Seminole),
Arizona State University
"Vital voices from Indigenous peoples have long been shrouded, interpreted, misinterpreted, or just plain ignored. Owings's humanity and journalistic instincts lead us where few non-Natives have ventured. Truly a must read."—Jackie Old Coyote, (Apsaalooke) The Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development
"I loved Indian Voices. And it was great fun to read because it is about real people in contemporary times."—Jacqueline Johnson-Pata (Tlingit), Executive Director, Congress of American Indians
"Owings is a good writer and an even better listener. She manages to present the stories told by real-life Natives/Indians/Tribal People with attention to detail and as accurately as a person outside the culture probably could. She brings her own perspective to the stories and although these asides may make many Natives/Indians smile in all-too familiar recognition of encounters with non-Natives, they also help to illustrate the uniqueness of Native/Tribal culture. This book is an excellent addition to the ongoing conversation between Natives and non-Natives and it also enhances mutual understanding among the Peoples of this country."—Native Peoples Law Caucus Newsletter
Excerpt: Read a portion of this book (in PDF format).
Description:
Have you ever sat down for an intimate conversation with a Lakota, Pawnee, Navajo, Yakama, Hopi, or Tonawanda Seneca, among members of other tribal nations, and listened to them talk about their lives and what it's like to be a Native American in the United States today? In Indian Voices Alison Owings takes readers on a fresh journey across America, east to west, north to south, and around again. Owings's most recent oral history—engagingly written in a style that entertains and informs—documents what Native Americans from sixteen different tribal nations say about themselves and the world around them.
Young and old, women and men, speak with candor, insight, and (unknown to many non-Natives) humor about being a Native American in the twenty-first century. Many also express their thoughts about the sometimes staggeringly ignorant, if often well-meaning, non-Natives they encounter—some who do not realize Native Americans still exist, much less that they speak English, have cell phones, use the Internet, and might attend both powwows and power lunches.
Indian Voices, an inspiring and important contribution to the literature about descendants of the original Americans, will make every reader rethink the past—and present—of the United States.
About the Author:
ALISON OWINGS is the author of Frauen: German Women Recall the Third Reich, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year (Rutgers University Press) and Hey, Waitress! The USA from the Other Side of the Tray.
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