Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Foreword by Ben Burgess -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- EARTH -- Footbridge I -- Footbridge II -- Footbridge III -- Footbridge IV -- Bearings I -- Bearings II -- Bearings III -- Bearings IV --...
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Foreword by Ben Burgess -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- EARTH -- Footbridge I -- Footbridge II -- Footbridge III -- Footbridge IV -- Bearings I -- Bearings II -- Bearings III -- Bearings IV -- AIR -- An Invitation -- Keeping Tabs: A Found Poem -- Visitor's Guide -- Development I -- Development II -- Development III -- Development IV -- Forewarning I -- Forewarning II -- Forewarning III -- Forewarning IV -- WATER -- Snake River I -- Snake River II -- Snake River III -- Snake River IV -- Snake River V -- Song for Biboon -- Vigilance -- Carouse I -- Carouse II -- Carouse III -- Carouse IV -- FIRE -- Bonfire I -- Bonfire II -- Bonfire III -- Bonfire IV -- Remontant -- Ode to First Ave. -- Ode to Prince -- Remains I -- Remains II -- Remains III -- Remains IV -- About the Author.
Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the jewel bearing plant, the first factory located near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a Chippewa Council member who is trying to understand the consequences of a new...
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Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the jewel bearing plant, the first factory located near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a Chippewa Council member who is trying to understand the consequences of a new 'emancipation' bill on its way to the floor of the United States Congress. It is 1953 and he and the other council members know the bill isn't about freedom; Congress is fed up with Indians. The bill is a 'termination' that threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land and their very identity. How can the government abandon treaties made in good faith with Native Americans 'for as long as the grasses shall grow, and the rivers run'?
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North Dakota State University Press, Fargo, ND
"Apple Starkington turned her back on her Native American heritage the moment she was called a racial slur for someone of white and Indian descent, not that she really even knew how to be an Indian in the first place. Too bad the white world doesn't...
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"Apple Starkington turned her back on her Native American heritage the moment she was called a racial slur for someone of white and Indian descent, not that she really even knew how to be an Indian in the first place. Too bad the white world doesn't accept her either. And so begins her quirky habits to gain acceptance. Apple's name, chosen by her Indian mother on her deathbed, has a double meaning: treasured apple of my eye, but also the negative connotation a person who is red, or Indian, on the outside, but white on the inside. After her wealthy father gives her the boot one summer, Apple reluctantly agrees to visit her Native American relatives on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in northern North Dakota for the first time. Apple learns to deal with the culture shock of Indian customs and the Native Michif language, while she tries to find a connection to her dead mother. She also has to deal with a vengeful Indian man who loved her mother in high school but now hates Apple because her mom married a white man. Bouncing in the middle of two cultures, Apple meets her Indian relatives, shatters Indian stereotypes, and learns what it means to find her place in a world divided by color." --