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Keeping heart on Pine Ridge : family ties, warrior culture, commodity foods, rez dogs, and the sacred / Victor Glover.
- Title
- Keeping heart on Pine Ridge : family ties, warrior culture, commodity foods, rez dogs, and the sacred / Victor Glover.
- Author
- Glover, Victor (Victor J. P.)
- Publication
- Summertown, Tenn. : Native Voices/Book Pub. Co., c2004.
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Details
- Description
- 159 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- In South Dakota, cruise down the back roads of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in this anthology of real-life stories. The author lays bare the challenges, history, bonds, and rich traditions that infuse the stark reality of life on the "rez." Glover introduces us to his friends, family and neighbors, inviting us into his private world with a trace of amusement and poignant honesty that grabs you and never lets go.
- Subjects
- Creative nonfiction
- Glover, Vic
- History
- Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.) > Social life and customs
- Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.) > History
- Oglala Indians > South Dakota > Pine Ridge Indian Reservation > Social life and customs
- Oglala Indians > South Dakota > Pine Ridge Indian Reservation > History
- Genre/Form
- History
- Creative nonfiction.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Generosity -- Going for Wood -- The Transformation of Betsy -- Jesus on the Rez -- Hearing the Silence -- People Rolling Through -- A Volatile Mix -- Tree Day -- At the Dance -- Slim Buttes Road -- Rez Death -- About This Food Thing -- Medicine Family -- The Rez Dog -- After the Ceremony -- Uncle Joe Is Always Operating on Indian Time -- Going After Commods -- Just Another Saturday Night -- Another Sunday -- The Old Man -- Your Better Mind -- Trapjaw -- Double Row on a Wednesday Night -- Larue's Hanblecheya Song -- About The Ways -- Sun Dance Fever -- Counting to Seven -- Who's in the Circle -- Warrior Culture -- Feeling About Writing -- Dancer's Lodge -- Gumbo Country -- La Roja Goes to Heaven -- When a Strange Cat Comes to Your House, Spit on It Twice -- Crossing the Auto Gate -- Reason for Being -- Armageddon Didn't Happen Yet -- Slim Buttes Horse Latitudes -- Disposable People -- An Indian Thanksgiving -- Too Extreme.
- ISBN
- 1570671656
- 9781570671654
- LCCN
- ^^2004015878
- OCLC
- 55955294
- SCSB-12786844
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library