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Wild Indians & other creatures
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"Wild Indians & Other Creatures is a stunning book that will startle readers who harbor romantic notions of contemporary Native American life. In these interrelated stories, most animals speak and ...
"Wild Indians & Other Creatures is a stunning book that will startle readers who harbor romantic notions of contemporary Native American life. In these interrelated stories, most animals speak and most humans drink. A number of these irrelevant stories of Indian life are reworkings of traditional Trickster tales complete with horny humanesque coyotes, randy ravens, and mystical bears - which transcend that form and become something new and arresting. Set on and around the Pine Ridge Reservation of South Dakota, these unsettling, often politically incorrect stories almost function as a novel. Many are laugh-out-loud funny, while others are stark and sad, yet grimly human and powerful. Many more stories and lives are interwoven in these sometimes bawdy but always moving and memorable tales. In Wild Indians & Other Creatures, Adrian C. Louis, one of the leading American Indian poets, presents an unblinking look at the social ills of reservation life while at the same time speaking of hope and survival for native peoples"--amazon.com.
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- Creator
- Adrian C. Louis
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- Language
- English
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- Paperback edition
- Reno, Nev. : University of Nevada Press, 1997
- ©1996
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- xii, 185 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0874173035, 9780874173031
- OCLC
- ocm42391212
- How Coyote got killed and resurrected -- Why Coyote knotted his whanger -- Raven in the eye of the storm -- Pretty Bull schemes a new snag -- Badger medicine and Velva's bloomers -- Sunshine boy -- Bobo murders Mickey Mouse -- The night beans talked to Old Bear -- Auntie Angie's Cheyenne affair -- Abducted by aliens inside her brain -- Song of the warrior -- Raven bombs the screamer -- Coyote in the city of angels -- Edwins' letter about A man called Horse -- Eagles above mean good luck? -- At war with the snake people -- The pink plastic clothespin -- The blood thirst of Verdell Ten Bears -- Waylon Two Stars takes his son rabbit hunting -- Raven and the valentine -- Household hints for Rez wino bachelors -- There was a coyote woman -- Old Bear dreams of the comet of despair -- Closing song : Coyote's circle
Subjects
- Indians of North America -- South Dakota -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
- Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
- Indians of North America -- South Dakota -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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- Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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