Elsie's business /

Rebuilding her life in a different town, the taciturn Elsie finds modest comfort among the white people who employ and befriend her. This book weaves the story of a ravaged woman into the traditional tales of her people to create a vivid sense of communities bound by storytelling and understanding a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Washburn, Frances
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2006.
Series:Native storiers.
Subjects:
Indian women > Fiction.
Rape victims > Fiction.
Dakota Indians > Fiction.
Indian reservations > Fiction.
Femmes des Peuples autochtones > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Victimes de viol > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Dakota > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Dakota Indians
Indian reservations
Indian women
Rape victims
Standing Rock Indian Reservation (N.D. and S.D.) > Fiction.
United States > Standing Rock Indian Reservation
Fiction
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • January 16, 1970 : Anukite
  • March 21, 1967 : a 1967 black Camaro
  • January 17, 1970 : Sinte Sapela win
  • March 21, 1907, to March 21, 1967 : one hundred years of waiting
  • January 18, 1970 : talking and walking
  • April 24, 1967 : moving
  • January 18, 1970 : a meeting
  • Mobridge, 1949-1950 : learning tradition
  • June through November, 1967 : just following tradition
  • Christmas, 1967
  • January 20, 1970 : how the crow got to be black
  • January 16, 1968 : moccasins
  • January 22,1970 : Oscar's B & B
  • January 23, 1970, morning : red tape
  • January 23, 1970, noon : friendship
  • March 15, 1968 : taking the measurements
  • March 15, 1968, evening : another kind of measuring
  • January 23, 1970, afternoon : John Caulfield
  • April 9, 1968 : cats in the bushes
  • April 11, 1968 : friends or lovers
  • Summer, fall and winter, 1968 : replay
  • January 23, 1970, afternoon : Lowan
  • January, 1969 : funerals
  • January 24, 1970 : insomnia
  • January 27, 1970 : ceremonies and arrangements
  • January 31, 1970 : wiping the tears
  • February 1, 1970 : the kindness of strangers
  • February 3, 1970 : digging up the past
  • February 4, 1970 : going home.

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