Telling a good one
Subtitle: the process of a Native American collaborative biography
By: by Theodore Rios and Kathleen Mullen Sands.
Contributors: Sands, Kathleen M.
Series: American Indian lives
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
Subjects: Rios, Theodore; Sands, Kathleen M; Autobiography -- Authorship; Biography as a literary form; Authorship -- Collaboration; Tohono O'Odham Indians -- Biography; Arizona -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: Born in 1915, Theodore Rios lived in the San Xavier del Bac District, southwest of Tucson, Arizona. He was part of the first generation of Tohono O'odhams to attend boarding school. Employed as a rancher in his youth, he spent much of his adult life doing mining work. In the 1970s he told the story of his life to Kathleen Mullen Sands. Sands is a professor of English at Arizona State University and the coauthor of American Indian Women: Telling Their Lives.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-355) and index.