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A candid, poetic account of childhood and young manhood through the eyes of a Native American, this vivid narrative is destined to become a central moral text for our time. Through the persona of Edgar Bearchild-a member of the Black Eagle Child Settlement-Ray A. Young Bear takes readers on an unforgettable "journey of words" as he documents grief and anguish countered by an abundance of humor, pride, and insight.… (altro)
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Quite an amalgam of quasi-memoir, psychoactive drug trips, and traditional tale. Don't try to follow this linearly, but you realize at the end that you have a picture of young men's life from reservation through attempts to fit into the white culture in the 1960s. The words are broken into shortened lines on the page, which makes one think it must be poetry, and the descriptive power of the words certainly fits into poetic expectations. But if it is poetry it is a narrativ poem, and the layout doesn't interfere with the telling of the tale. ( )
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For my beloved grandmother, Ada K. Old Bear, whose mystical cloak protects me from the icy rain. It was her words of encouragement that led me to Well-Off Man -- and back.
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The Thanksgiving party at the Weeping Willow Elementary School had just concluded with the same lethargic atmosphere it started with.
(Foreward): "Throughout America, north and south," Eduardo Galeano recently declared, "the dominant culture acknowledges Indians as objects of study, but denies them as subjects of history.
(Afterward): In the spring of 1970, during a smoggy, oily-aired evening in Southern California, I jotted down what was perhaps the first outline of this book.
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Confident the sutures would hold, he ruffled his speckled chest, leaned forward, and took flight, keeping altitude at treetop level.
A candid, poetic account of childhood and young manhood through the eyes of a Native American, this vivid narrative is destined to become a central moral text for our time. Through the persona of Edgar Bearchild-a member of the Black Eagle Child Settlement-Ray A. Young Bear takes readers on an unforgettable "journey of words" as he documents grief and anguish countered by an abundance of humor, pride, and insight.
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The words are broken into shortened lines on the page, which makes one think it must be poetry, and the descriptive power of the words certainly fits into poetic expectations. But if it is poetry it is a narrativ poem, and the layout doesn't interfere with the telling of the tale. (