Not Far Away The Real-life Adventures of Ima Pipiig

by Beard, Steve

• ISBN13: 9780759111202
• ISBN10: 0759111200
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-21
• Publisher: AltaMira Press

Summary

Part novel amd part memoire, Not Far Away recounts the life of a female Ojibwe schoolteacher in northern Michigan as she endures the most caustic forms of racism.

Author Biography

Lois Beardslee is an instructor in communications at Northwestern Michigan College

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
The Real-life Adventures of Ima Pipiig	p. 5
Kool-Aid	p. 11
Solstice	p. 15
Indian Boarding School	p. 23
Not Far Away	p. 25
Falcon Clan Meets Indian Boarding School	p. 43
Venn Diagrams (We Are a Subset of America...)	p. 47
Educating Ima	p. 53
Before I Offend Most of You, I Would Like to Thank You for Coming	p. 67
Turtle TV	p. 75
Public Education as a Form of Media	p. 81
Racism 101	p. 85
The Lecture They Want to Hear	p. 97
Sweetgrass	p. 105
The Play	p. 111
Creation Stories	p. 121
No, Wait-I Know a Part That Comes before the Beginning	p. 125
The Lore of the Turtle	p. 133
Book Reviews	p. 137
The Lars Nederstadt Holocaust Museum	p. 139
Men in Brown	p. 143
Why Ima Pipiig Did Not Vote	p. 145
Jim Crow-Culture of Convenience	p. 159
The Chair	p. 171
F-ed by the V-Monologues	p. 177
The Throw-away People	p. 187
Laughing Man	p. 195
I Wanna Be a Delicacy	p. 201
Dead Horses, and How to Beat Them	p. 215
Toxins	p. 219
Gambling for Dollars	p. 227
Big Waldeau and Pork Patty	p. 237
Shiigawk	p. 247
On Warriors, Living and Dead (In Respectful Memory of Charles J. Meyers)	p. 257
The Shirt	p. 261
We Did Not Come Over Here on the Mayflower	p. 265
The Ladies Sat There Patiently	p. 269
About the Author	p. 275
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