Red Earth - A Vietnam Warrior's Journey

"In the late summer of 1990 I fell into depression. By the time the Gulf War broke out, in the winter of 1991, I was well on my way to a breakdown. By the summer, with the help of my buddy Ed Orr, I was in a therapy program at the Vets Center in uptown Seattle." Red Eagle's extraordinary book deals directly with Native American experience of the Vietnam war and offers a healing and redemptive force in the face of violence and its aftermath.

List of contents

• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Red Earth
• 1954
• Red River
• Jimmy Johnny's Zippo
• Bois de Sioux
• The Fortunate Grandson
• Stoney
• Bois de Sioux

About the author

Philip H. Red Eagle was born in Tacoma, Washington in 1945 and moved to Sitka, Alaska, when he was 14 years old. He received his high school diploma from Sitka Senior High School on 18 May 1963. He was in and out of college for four years, finally enlisting in 1967. After one WesPac tour on the USS Somers, DDG-34 in 1969-70, he made his next tour "In-Country" as a riverboat mechanic from August 1970 to January 1972. It is the observations and feelings from this tour that make up the background of his short stories. Red Earth is his first effort.

Product details

• Authors: Philip H. H. Red Eagle
• Publisher: Salt Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2007
• EAN: 9781844712687
• ISBN: 978-1-84471-268-7
• No. of pages: 152
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 203 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 171 g
• Series: Earthworks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous