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Informationen zum Autor Susan Supernaw is a computer software, education, and technology consultant. Her manuscript for this book won the First Book Award for Prose from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas. Geary Hobson is a professor of English at the University of Oklahoma and the author of, most recently, The Last of the Ofos. Klappentext How American is Miss America? For Susan Supernaw! a Muscogee (Creek) and Munsee Native American! the question wasn't just academic. Throughout a childhood clouded by poverty! alcoholism! and abuse! Supernaw sought escape in school and dance and the Native American Church. She became a presidential scholar! won a scholarship to college! and was crowned Miss Oklahoma in 1971. Supernaw might not have won the Miss America pageant that year! but she did call attention to the Native peoples living largely invisible lives throughout their own American land. And she did at long last earn her Native American name. Chronicling a quest to escape poverty and find meaning! Supernaw's story is revealing! humorous! and deeply moving. "Muscogee Daughter" is the story of finding a Native American identity among the distractions and difficulties of American life and of discerning an identity among competing notions of what it is to be a woman! a Native American! and a citizen of the world. Zusammenfassung The life of a young Native American woman who overcame a childhood of poverty, physical disability, and abuse to become Miss Oklahoma and eventually earn her Native American name. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsForewordAcknowledgmentsFamily Genealogy1. Blessings Inside a Tipi2. Jimmy3. Bozo4. Horse Crazy5. A New Name6. Metamorphosis7. Sewer Rats8. Beef Noodle9. Susie Q10. Super Sue11. Tomorrow's Leader12. Coming Home13. Scorpio Sue14. Superstar Supernaw15. The Barefoot Queen16. The Indian Queen17. Dancing Feet18. Ellia PonnaNotes
