Singing an Indian Song: A Biography of D'Arcy McNickle (American Indian Lives)
Historian Parker has written a well-documented account of the life of D'Arcy McNickle (1904-77), an enrolled member of the Montana Flathead tribe, an anthropologist, teacher, novelist ( Runner in the Sun , 1954; Univ. of New Mexico Pr, 1987. reprint); The Surrounded , 1936; Univ. of New Mexico, 1978. reprint); Wind from an Enemy Sky , 1978; Univ. of New Mexico, 1988. reprint), and founding member of the National Congress of American Indians. The biography, depicting a life in two cultures, begins with a family history and look at reservation life. Next emerges McNickle's career from the 1920s to the 1970s. Sections on his association with the "Indian New Deal" and the Bureau of Indian Affairs under John Collier are especially interesting. McNickle set precedents in whatever he touched: as an early Pan-Indianist and, in 1971, when he became the first director of the Newberry Library's Center for the History of the American Indian. His literary works, once ignored, are now considered seminal Native American novels. This is an account of a unique American whose contributions were many and varied. Recommended for Native American collections.- Margaret W. Norton, Hoffman Estates H.S., Hoffman Estates, Ill.Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.