I Am Where I Come From : : Native American College Students and Graduates Tell Their Life Stories / / ed. by Robert Kilkenny, Andrew Garrod, Melanie Benson Taylor.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• MitwirkendeR: Abe, Hilary,; Bears, Davina Ruth Begaye Two,; Bennett, Bob,; Duthu, N. Bruce,; George, Blythe,; Him, John Around,; Jones, Ma'Ko'Quah,; Lomawaima, K. Tsianina,; Newmark, Kalina,; Prince, Shannon Joyce,; Salmon, AlexAnna,; Spear, Cinnamon,; Taylor, Melanie Benson,; Watchman, Jerry,; Wells, Preston,
• HerausgeberIn: Garrod, Andrew,; Kilkenny, Robert,; Taylor, Melanie Benson,
• TeilnehmendeR: Lomawaima, K. Tsianina.
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)

"The organizing principle for this anthology is the common Native American heritage of its authors; and yet that thread proves to be the most tenuous of all, as the experience of indigeneity differs radically for each of them. While many experience a centripetal pull toward a cohesive Indian ex...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Introduction
• PART I. BROKEN
• 1. Seeking to Be Whole
• 2. Bringing Back a Piece of the Sky
• 3. Chahta hattak sia , "I Am a Choctaw Man"
• PART II. AN INDIAN EDUCATION
• 4. Nihalgai Bahane', A Fourth-World Story
• 5. Bracelets Upon My Soul
• 6. My Journey to Healing
• PART III. FULL CIRCLE
• 7. Little Woman from Lame Deer
• 8. Village Girl
• 9. Future Ancestor
• 10. An Unpredictable Journey
• PART IV. CONTINUING EDUCATION
• 11. I Walk in Beauty
• 12. The Good Ol' Days When Times Were Bad
• 13. Why Didn't You Teach Me?
• Notes
• About the Editors and Author of the Foreword