Evelyn Sibley Lampman (1907–1980)
Autore di The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: Evelyn Sibley Lampman
Serie
Opere di Evelyn Sibley Lampman
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Altri nomi
- Bronson, Lynn (pseudonym)
Woodfin, Jane (pen name) - Data di nascita
- 1907-04-18
- Data di morte
- 1980-06-13
- Luogo di sepoltura
- River View Cemetery, Portland, Oregon, USA
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Dallas, Oregon, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Portland, Oregon, USA
- Causa della morte
- bile duct cancer
- Luogo di residenza
- Portland, Oregon, USA
- Istruzione
- Oregon Agricultural College (now Oregon State University)
- Attività lavorative
- radio writer
educational director, KEX radio - Relazioni
- Lampman, Ben Hur (father-in-law)
Lampman, Herbert Sheldon (husband) - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Dororthy Canfield Fisher Award
Western Writers of American Award
Utenti
Discussioni
Found: Stegosaurus in Colorado in Name that Book (Settembre 2021)
Native American middle grade histocial fiction novel Year of Shad? in Name that Book (Gennaio 2017)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 35
- Utenti
- 885
- Popolarità
- #28,944
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 17
- ISBN
- 30
Time Frame: sometime around the Vietnam War. The narrator is a high school girl whose family is Chinook (no current tribal landbase, traditional homelands around the mouth of the Columbia River in Oregon) and living in poverty. She describes situations in which prejudice is clear, her home life which includes wood heat and no running water. Her brother has returned from the Vietnam War, after a stint in hospital. He has ideas for restoring his community's pride, providing income by hosting potlatch events, relying on the memories and teachings of the elders along with the energy and labor of the younger ones. His whole family, some reluctantly, become involved. Even though they have to make some modifications, based on natural resources available, it proves a success and develops into an ongoing tourist attraction.
I think one criticism "A Broken Flute" might make is that it took the financial help of a local white family, just another book showing Indians can't make progress on their own. But perhaps that assumption is wrong. It could also be seen as all people working together, in unity, for a just world. It also shows that the tribe is still here and valuing a cultural core, despite lacking federal recognition.… (altro)