Completing the Circle

Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve tells her own story and the story of her family. An expert quilter, she recalls her grandmother, Flora Driving Hawk, teaching her how storytelling enthralls and how a quilt can represent all that holds a family together. "I think of how she and her woman friends sat around the quilt frame, gossiping, laughing, sighing as they stitched the joys and sorrows of their lives into the quilt."

About the author

National Humanities Medalist for the year 2000,Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve is the author of The Chichi Hoohoo Bogeyman, When Thunders Spoke, and The Trickster and the Troll, all available from the University of Nebraska Press.

Summary

Presents the author's own story and the story of her family. This title recalls her grandmother, Flora Driving Hawk, teaching her how storytelling enthralls and how a quilt can represent all that holds a family together.

Product details

• Authors: Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
• Publisher: Nebraska
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.1998
• EAN: 9780803292543
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-9254-3
• No. of pages: 121
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 228 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 200 g
• Series: North American Indian Prose Aw; North American Indian Prose Aw; North American Indian Prose Award
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Amerikanische Geschichte, Amerika, Ethnic Studies, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, HISTORY / Native American, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies