Rez Road Follies - Canoes, Casinos, Computers, and Birch Bark Baskets

The Rex Road Follies captures storyteller, poet, and performer Jim Northrup at his shrewdest and funniest. He tells of the key events of his own life: his childhood in a government boarding school, combat in Vietnam, confronting family tragedies, and becoming a grandfather -- or, as he says, "almost an elder." Northrup writes with equal candor about the reservation's poverty and racism on one hand, and its kinship and traditions on the other. The Rez Road Follies, filled with keen observations and feisty opinions, is an entertaining feast with a core of hard-earned wisdom.

Summary

The author relates his own life experiences to offer a view of contemporary Native American life.

Product details

• Authors: Jim Northrup
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.1999
• EAN: 9780816634958
• ISBN: 978-0-8166-3495-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 190 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 231 g
• Series: Mysteries & Horror; Mysteries & Horror
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)