Birding While Indian: A Mixed-Blood Memoir Gannon Thomas C.
Birding While Indian: A Mixed-Blood Memoir Gannon Thomas C. "A fascinating search for personal and cultural identity." --KirkusThomas C. Great Horned Owl, Sandhill Crane, Dickcissel: such species…
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Birding While Indian: A Mixed-Blood Memoir Gannon Thomas C.
"A fascinating search for personal and cultural identity." --KirkusThomas C. Great Horned Owl, Sandhill Crane, Dickcissel: such species form a kind of rosary, a corrective to the rosaries that evoke Gannon's traumatic time in an Indian boarding school in South Dakota, his mother's devastation at racist bullying from coworkers, and the violent erasure colonialism demanded of the people and other animals indigenous to the United States.Birding has always been Gannon's escape and solace. Gannon's Birding While Indian spans more than fifty years of childhood walks and adult road trips to deliver, via a compendium of birds recorded and revered, the author's life as a part-Lakota inhabitant of the Great Plains.
He draws on both throughout this expansive, hilarious, and humane He later found similar solace in literature, particularly by Native authors.
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