The dance boots / / Linda LeGarde Grover

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910826549703321
• Autore: Grover Linda LeGarde
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Athens, : University of Georgia Press, 2010
• ISBN: 1-282-79575-9; 9786612795756; 0-8203-3748-X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (165 p.)
• Collana: Winner of the flannery O'Connor award for short fiction
• Disciplina: 813/.6
• Soggetti: Ojibwa Indians; Minnesota Fiction
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: The dance boots -- Seasons -- Maggie and Louis, 1914 -- Refugees living and dying in the west end of Duluth -- Shonnud's girl -- Ojibwe boys -- Indians in the mirror -- Bingo night.
• Sommario/riassunto: With its attention to the Ojibwe language, customs, and history, The Dance Boots narrates a century's evolution of Native Americans making choices and compromises, often dictated by a white majority, as they try to balance survival, tribal traditions, and obligations to future generations.