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Author Young Bear, Ray A.

Title Black Eagle Child : the Facepaint narratives / by Ray A. Young Bear ; foreword by Albert E. Stone
Edition 1st ed
Published Iowa City, IA : University of Iowa Press, 1992

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 261 pages) : illustrations
Series Singular lives
Singular lives.
Contents Foreword by Albert E. Stone; The Well-Off Man Church; Gift of the Star-Medicine; Afred E. Neuman Was an Arsonist; The Introduction of Grape Jell-O; The Precociousness of Charlotte; Brook Grassleggings Episode; A Circus Acrobat on the Grass; The Year of the Jefferson Airplane; The Human Parchment Period; How We Delighted in Seeing the Fat; The Supernatural Strobe Light; The Ugliest Man in Big Valley; Ask the One Who Blesses the Roots; Junior Pipestar: The Destiny Factor; Black Eagle Child Quarterly; The Man Squirrel Shall Not Wake; Afterword
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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SUBJECT Bear, Ray A. Young. ram
Subject Indians of North America -- Iowa -- Fiction
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
Indians of North America
Fox (Indiens) -- Biographies.
Fox (Indiens) -- Moeurs et coutumes.
Littérature américaine -- Auteurs indiens -- Biographies.
Iowa
Genre/Form Electronic books
Fiction
Fiction.
Romans.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1587292572
9781587292576
1587293668
9781587293665