Buffalo Tiger - A Life in the Everglades

Informationen zum Autor Harry A. Kersey Jr. is professor emeritus of history at Florida Atlantic University. He is the author of several books, including An Assumption of Sovereignty: Social and Political Transformation among the Florida Seminoles, 1953-1979 (Nebraska 1996) and The Florida Seminoles and the New Deal, 1933-1942. Klappentext Harry A. Kersey Jr. is a professor of history at Florida Atlantic University. He is the author of several books! including An Assumption of Sovereignty: Social and Political Transformation among the Florida Seminoles! 1953?79 (Nebraska 1996) and The Florida Seminoles and the New Deal! 1933?42. Zusammenfassung Born in a small village in the Everglades in 1920! Buffalo Tiger grew up immersed in the traditional customs and language of the Miccosukees. As the modern world encroached on the Miccosukees and the Everglades shrank around them! he became an energetic and outspoken leader of the community. This is the biography of a tireless leader. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsSeries Editors' IntroductionAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. A Miccosukee Childhood2. My Beliefs3. Learning the White Man's Ways4. The Struggle for Recognition5. The Miccosukee Tribe6. Our Heritage, Our Life, Our FutureAfterword / The Importance of a LifeAppendix / Constructing a Life HistoryNotes Index

Product details

• Authors: Harry A Kersey, Harry A. Kersey, Harry a. Jr. Kersey, Buffalo Tiger, Buffalo Kersey Tiger, Buffalo/ Kersey Tiger
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2008
• EAN: 9780803218857
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-1885-7
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Indians of the Southeast (Pape; Indians of the Southeast; Indians of the Southeast (Pape
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology