Viola Martinez, California Paiute
Subtitle: Living in Two Worlds
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: April 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780806135144
Subjects: Martinez, Viola M; United States; General; Biography / Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; Paiute Indians; Biography/Autobiography; Martinez, Viola M.; Indian women; Women; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies; (Viola Meroney); Biography
First sentence: WE MET AT A CHINESE-VIETNAMESE WEDDING.
Description: "The life story of Viola Martinez, an Owens Valley Paiute Indian of eastern California, extends over nine decades of the twentieth century. Viola experienced forced assimilation in an Indian boarding school, overcame racial stereotypes to pursue a college degree, and spent several years wolking at a Japanese American internment camp during World War II.

Finding herself poised uncertainly between Indian and white worlds, Viola was determined to turn her marginalized existence into an opportunity for personal empowerment. In Viola Martinez, California Paiute, Diana Meyers Bahr recounts Viola's extraordinary life story and examines her strategies for dealing with acculturation."--BOOK JACKET.