Everlasting Sky

by Vizenor, Gerald Robert; Nelson, Paul David; Lewis, David Levering

• ISBN13: 9780873514002
• ISBN10: 0873514009
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Pr

Summary

Gerald Vizenor has been a significant force in Native American literature and criticism for over thirty years. In this, his classic first book of essays, Vizenor presents a stark but vital view of reservation life in the late 1960s and early 1970s, a collection that Studies in American Indian Literatures called 'memorable portraits of real people who defied yet finally were overcome by the dominant society.' Focusing on the people of the northern reservations, particularly the White Earth Reservation where he grew up, Vizenor puts a human face on those desperate and politically charged times that saw frequent government intervention and the emergence of the American Indian Movement. In his trademark style, Vizenor juxtaposes these snapshots of contemporary life against images and dream sequences from Anishinabe folktales and ceremonies. In his new introduction, composed especially for this edition, Vizenor reflects on the changes that have occurred on the reservations in the last three decades and updates the lives of this fascinating and various cast of characters.

Author Biography

Gerald Vizenor, an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, is professor of Native American literature at the University of California, Berkeley

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
The Four Ages of Man	p. 1
The Sacred Names Were Changed	p. 5
Something the White Man Named	p. 14
Daydreaming in a White School	p. 27
Making It off the Reservation	p. 43
Keeping the Family Together	p. 51
Dreams in the Fourth Dimension	p. 65
The People are Afraid of Change	p. 80
What the People Believe is True	p. 93
No One Else Can Represent My Conscience	p. 109
Little More Than an Inside Toilet	p. 116
Buried in a Blue Suit	p. 128
Index	p. 137
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