Life, Letters and Speeches

Informationen zum Autor The works of George Copway include The Traditional History and Characteristic Sketches of the Ojibway Nation and Running Sketches of Men and Places in England, France, Germany, Belgium and Scotland. A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff is a professor emerita of English at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and the author of American Indian Literatures: An Introduction, Bibliographic Review and Selected Bibliography. Donald B. Smith is a professor of history at the University of Calgary, Alberta. He is the author of Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance: The Glorious Impostor and From the Land of Shadows: The Making of Grey Owl. Klappentext The works of George Copway include The Traditional History and Characteristic Sketches of the Ojibway Nation and Running Sketches of Men and Places in England, France, Germany, Belgium and Scotland.¿A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff is a professor emerita of English at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and the author of American Indian Literatures: An Introduction, Bibliographic Review and Selected Bibliography.¿Donald B. Smith is a professor of history at the University of Calgary, Alberta. He is the author of Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance: The Glorious Impostor and From the Land of Shadows: The Making of Grey Owl. Zusammenfassung George Copway rose to prominence in American literary, political, and social circles during the mid-nineteenth century. This work chronicles Copway's cultural journey, portraying the freedom of his early childhood, the dramatic moment of his spiritual awakening to Methodism, and the rewards and frustrations of missionary work.

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• Authors: George Copway, George Copway (Kahgegagahbowh), Copway George
• Assisted by: A Lavonne Brown Ruoff (Editor), A. La Vonne Brown Ruoff (Editor), A. Lavonne Brown Ruoff (Editor), Donald B Smith (Editor), Donald B. Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2006
• EAN: 9780803264632
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-6463-2
• No. of pages: 258
• Series: American Indian Lives; American Indian Lives
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Amerikanische Geschichte, Amerika, Biography / Autobiography, HISTORY / Native American, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Native Americans