Viola Martinez, California Paiute

by Bahr, Diana Meyers

• ISBN13: 9780806141596
• ISBN10: 080614159X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr

Summary

The life story of Viola Martinez, an Owens Valley Paiute Indian of eastern California, extends over nine decades of the twentieth century. Viola experienced forced assimilation in an Indian boarding school, overcame racial stereotypes to pursue a college degree, and spent several years working at a Japanese American internment camp during World War II. In this book, Diana Meyers Bahr draws on Viola's own words to recount her extraordinary life story and examine her strategies for dealing with acculturation.

Author Biography

Diana Meyers Bahr is the author of From Mission to Metropolis: Cupeo Indian Women in Los Angeles and The Unquiet Nisei: An Oral History of the Life of Sue Kunitomi Embrey.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. VII
Acknowledgments	p. IX
Introduction: The Marginal Person	p. 3
Facing the Sunrise: Owens Valley	p. 17
ôA Mess of Unclesö: Viola's Early Years	p. 29
Far from Home: Sherman Institute Boarding School	p. 51
The Creative Margin	p. 67
Return to Owens Valley	p. 83
Converging Paths: Native Americans, Euro-Americans, and Japanese Americans at Manzanar	p. 93
Expanded Margins: Urban Opportunities	p. 105
Education Advocate: Eighteen Years in the Los Angeles Unified School District	p. 123
The Trip Home	p. 133
Conclusion: Culturally Enlarged Elder	p. 155
Literature Review	p. 159
Afterword	p. 171
Notes	p. 173
Bibliography	p. 185
Index	p. 195
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