Singing an Indian Song

by Parker, Dorothy R.

• ISBN13: 9780803287303
• ISBN10: 0803287305
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr

Summary

One of the foremost Native American intellectuals of his generation (1904-77), D'Arcy McNickle is best known today for the American Indian history center that carries his name at the Newberry Library in Chicago, and for his novels,The Surrounded,Runner in the Sun, andWind from an Enemy Sky. A historian and novelist, he was also an anthropologist, Bureau of Indian Affairs official during the heady days of the Indian New Deal, teacher, and founding member of the National Congress of American Indians. The child of a Metis mother and white father, he was an enrolled member of the Flathead Tribe of Montana. But first, and largely by choice, he was a Native American who sought to restore pride and self-determination to all Native American people. Based on a wide range of previously untapped sources, this first full-length biogrpahy traces the course of McNickle's life from the reservation of his childhood through a career of major import to American Indian political and cultural affairs. In so doing it reveals a man who affirmed his own heritage while giving a collective Indian voice to many who had previously seen themselves only in a tribal context.

Author Biography

Dorothy R. Parker is an assistant professor of history at Eastern New Mexico University. Her publications include Phoenix Indian School: The Second Half-Century and articles and reviews in the American Indian Culture and Research Journal and elsewhere.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Prologue: A Place of Beginning	p. 1
Into a New World	p. 7
Surrounded No More	p. 28
The Collier Excitement	p. 59
The Making Of: An Applied Anthropologist	p. 86
From Reorganization To Termination	p. 110
The Crownpoint Project	p. 137
Education For Citizenship	p. 168
In the Fullness Of Years	p. 200
The Legacy	p. 235
Notes	p. 259
Bibliography of The Published Works Of D'Arcy Mcnickle	p. 291
References	p. 295
Index	p. 309
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