Young Bear, Ray A.

Black Eagle Child : the Facepaint narratives / by Ray A. Young Bear ; foreword by Albert E. Stone. - 1st ed. - Iowa City, IA : University of Iowa Press, 1992. - 1 online resource (xv, 261 pages) : illustrations. - Singular lives . - Singular lives. .

Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword by Albert E. Stone; The Well-Off Man Church; Gift of the Star-Medicine; Afred E. Neuman Was an Arsonist; The Introduction of Grape Jell-O; The Precociousness of Charlotte; Brook Grassleggings Episode; A Circus Acrobat on the Grass; The Year of the Jefferson Airplane; The Human Parchment Period; How We Delighted in Seeing the Fat; The Supernatural Strobe Light; The Ugliest Man in Big Valley; Ask the One Who Blesses the Roots; Junior Pipestar: The Destiny Factor; Black Eagle Child Quarterly; The Man Squirrel Shall Not Wake; Afterword.

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A candid, poetic account of childhood and young manhood through the eyes of a Native American, this vivid narrative is destined to become a central moral text for our time. Through the persona of Edgar Bearchild - a member of the Black Eagle Child Settlement - Ray A. Young Bear takes readers on an unforgettable "journey of words" as he documents grief and anguish countered by an abundance of humor, pride, and insight.


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Indians of North America--Iowa--Fiction.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--General.
Indians of North America.
Fox (Indiens)--Biographies.
Fox (Indiens)--Moeurs et coutumes.
Litt�erature am�ericaine--Auteurs indiens--Biographies.


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