Eating Fire, Tasting Blood
Breaking the Great Silence of the American Indian Holocaust
Moore, Marijo (EDT)
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BOOK SUMMARY
As you walk out of your front door tomorrow morning, look down. Look to your left and to your right. Touch the earth: the concrete, the sidewalk, or whatever surrounds you. Undoubtedly you will be touching the layered coverings of the remains of indigenou
BOOK SYNOPSIS
As you walk out of your front door tomorrow morning, look down. Look to your left and to your right. Touch the earth: the concrete, the sidewalk, or whatever surrounds you. Undoubtedly you will be touching the layered coverings of the remains of indigenous peoples. Not arrowheads, not broken pieces of pottery but the very DNA of the first peoples of this continent. For five centuries from Columbus's arrival in 1492 to the U.S. Army's massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in the 1890s, to the renewed assault in the 1970s our continent's indigenous people endured the most massive and systematic act of genocide in the history of the world. In Eating Fire, Tasting Blood, twenty established and up-and-coming American Indian writers from disparate nations and tribes offer stirring reflections on the history of their people. This is not a collection of essays about Native Americans but rather a collection BY Native Americans the story of native holocaust on a tribe-by-tribe level as told by those few who have been fortunate enough to survive. Included are original essays by Vine Deloria Jr., Paula Gunn Allen, Linda Hogan, and Eduardo Galeano.
AUTHOR BIO
MariJo Moore is a novelist and poet of Cherokee, Irish, and Dutch ancestry. She is the editor of Genocide of the Mind: New Writings by Native Americans (Thunders Mouth Press) and the author of numerous books including Spirit Voices of Bones, Red Woman with Backward Eyes and Other Stories, and a novel, The Diamond Doorknob. She lives in the mountains of North Carolina.
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1560258381
ISBN(13-digit): 9781560258384
Dewey Decimal: 323.1197
Library of Congress: bl2006016409
Book Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 406
Paper Weight (lb): 0.80 lb
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