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Size: 6x0x9; Signed by author on title page. Paperback. Owner name on top page edges. Otherwise clean and unmarked. Binding strong. Light wear.

Size: 6x0x9; Signed by author on title page. Paperback. Owner name on top page edges. Otherwise clean and unmarked. Binding strong. Light wear.

Tucson. 2000. January 2000. University of Arizona Press. Reprinted Paperback

Tucson. 2000. January 2000. University of Arizona Press. Reprinted Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780816519934. 96 pages. paperback. keywords: Native American. DESCRIPTION-The massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho women and children by U. S. soldiers at Sand Creek in 1864 was a shameful episode in American history, and its battlefield was proposed as a National Historic Site in 1998 to pay homage to those innocent victims. Poet Simon Ortiz had honored those people seventeen years earlier in his own way. That book, from Sand Creek, is now back in print. Originally published in a small-press edition, from Sand Creek makes a large statement about injustices done to Native peoples in the name of Manifest Destiny. It also makes poignant reference to the spread of that ambition in other parts of the world--notably in Vietnam--as Ortiz asks himself what it is to be an American, a U. S. citizen, and an Indian. Indian people have often felt they have had no part in history, Ortiz observes, and through his work he shows how they can come to terms with this feeling. He invites Indian people to examine the process they have experienced as victims, subjects, and expendable resources--and asks people of European heritage to consider the motives that drive their own history and create their own form of victimization. Through the pages of this sobering work, Ortiz offers a new perspective on history and on America. Perhaps more important, he offers a breath of hope that our peoples might learn from each other: This America has been a burden of steel and mad death, but, look now, there are flowers and new grass and a spring wind rising from Sand Creek. inventory #47021.

8vo-7¾"-9¾" Tall. Wraps have light blistering on edges. Pages are clean with some markings in text.

8vo-7¾"-9¾" Tall. Wraps have light blistering on edges. Pages are clean with some markings in text.

Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. With dust jacket. 96 p. Sun Tracks, 42. Audience: General/trade.

Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. With dust jacket. 96 p. Sun Tracks, 42. Audience: General/trade.