Muscogee Daughter

by Supernaw, Susan

• ISBN13: 9780803229716
• ISBN10: 0803229712
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr

Summary

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 Daughteris 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.

Author Biography

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 under the title “The Power of a Name.” Geary Hobson is a professor of English at the University of Oklahoma and the author of, most recently, The Last of the Ofos.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Foreword	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Family Genealogy	p. xix
Blessings Inside a Tipi	p. 1
Jimmy	p. 5
Bozo	p. 24
Horse Crazy	p. 31
A New Name	p. 42
Metamorphosis	p. 53
Sewer Rats	p. 70
Beef Noodle	p. 75
Susie Q	p. 83
Super Sue	p. 90
Tomorrow's Leader	p. 101
Coming Home	p. 115
Scorpio Sue	p. 124
Superstar Supernaw	p. 143
The Barefoot Queen	p. 157
The Indian Queen	p. 171
Dancing Feet	p. 186
Ellia Ponna	p. 200
Notes	p. 203
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