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Wolf That I Am

Autor: Fred McTaggart, William T. Hagan

Język:

Oprawa: Miękka

Wydawca: University of Oklahoma Press

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The Mesquakies-popularly known as the Fox, or Sac and Fox, Indians-were a large and powerful people...

Informacje o książce

Autor

Fred McTaggart, William T. Hagan

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

Data wydania

1976

strony

201

EAN

9780806119052

ISBN

0806119055

Enbook ID

11524266

Wydawca

University of Oklahoma Press

Waga

291

Wymiary

140 x 216 x 13

Pełny opis

The Mesquakies-popularly known as the Fox, or Sac and Fox, Indians-were a large and powerful people in the Great Lakes region in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Now they live on approximately 3,000 acres of communal property near Tama, Iowa, surrounded by white middle-class farmers. WOLF THAT I AM is the story of a young white academic's encounter with the Mesquakies whom he got to know while collecting folklore for his dissertation. Fred McTaggart had expected to find a dying oral culture. Instead, he found a thriving way of life based on families and clans, linking the present-day Mesquakie Indians with previous generations, including ancestors who lived before the world was created in its present form. This encounter with a people who live ideas instead of thinking them inspired McTaggart to unlock secrets within