No Parole Today

by Tohe, Laura

• ISBN13: 9780931122934
• ISBN10: 0931122937
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-06-01
• Publisher: West End Pr

Summary

In prose and poetry, Tohe describes attending a government school for Indian children and the challenge it presented to her socially, culturally, and expressively.

Author Biography

Laura Tohe is assistant professor of English at Arizona State University.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Letter to General Pratt	p. ix
Prologue: Once You Were Signed Up	p. xiii
"Kill the Indian, Save the Man"
Our Tongues Slapped into Silence	p. 2
The Names	p. 4
Cat or Stomp	p. 6
She's Real Quiet, a Letter from the Indian School I	p. 7
Joe Babes	p. 8
The Mane Story	p. 10
Christianity Hopping	p. 11
The Sacrament	p. 13
Popeye's Kitchen, A Letter from the Indian School II	p. 14
Woolworths	p. 15
Sometimes Those Pueblo Men Can Sure Be Coyotes	p. 16
Mennen Skin Bracer	p. 18
Dancing Boots	p. 20
Visiting Cabbage Ears, A Letter from the Indian School III	p. 22
Covert Lover or How My Naa'ashood Days Ended	p. 23
So I Blow Smoke in Her Face	p. 25
Collage	p. 30
No Parole Today
Conversations in passing	p. 32
My Brother Shakes the Bottle	p. 34
Body Identified	p. 35
Newspaper Deaths	p. 36
The Shooting	p. 37
No Parole Today	p. 38
Sometimes She Dreams	p. 39
Little Sister	p. 40
Half-Light	p. 41
Oil	p. 42
When the Moon Died	p. 43
Easter Sunday	p. 45
At Mexican Springs	p. 47
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