Viet Cong at Wounded Knee: The Trail of a Blackfeet Activist, Paperback

de: Woody Kipp

 

Publicat de: University of Nebraska Press

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It was at Wounded Knee, huddled under a night sky lit by military flares and the searchlights of armored personnel carriers, that Vietnam vet Woody Kipp realized that he, as an American Indian, had become the enemy, the Viet Cong, to a country that he had defended at the risk of his life. With candor, bitter humor, and biting insight, this book tells the story of the long and tortuous trail that led Kipp from the Blackfeet Reservation of his birth to a terrible moment of reckoning on the plains of South Dakota. Kipp's is a story of Native values and practices uneasily intersected by cowboy culture, teenage angst, and quintessentially American temptations and excesses. As a boy, Kipp was a passionate reader and basketball player, always ready to brawl and already struggling with discrimination and alcoholism in his teens. From his tour of duty in Vietnam as a Marine to his troubled return, from his hell-raising as a violent, womanizing, hard-drinking horse breaker to his consciousness-raising experiences as a college student and foot soldier in the American Indian Movement, Kipp's memoir offers a unique, firsthand view of the enduring power-and the vulnerability-of Blackfeet culture, of the difficulties inherent in cross-cultural understanding, and of the urgent necessity of overcoming these difficulties if the essential heritage of Native America is to survive. Woody Kipp is an English instructor at Blackfeet Community College on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana.

About the Author:

Woody Kipp is an English instructor at Blackfeet Community College on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana.

General
Anul 2008
Autor Woody Kipp
Cod de bare 9780803216419
Editura University of Nebraska Press
Dimensiuni 204x140
ISBN 0803216416
Limba Engleza
Pagini 157
Format Brosata

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