Family matters, tribal affairs
By: Carter Revard.
Series: Sun tracks ;; v. 36
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
Subjects: Revard, Carter -- Family.; Indians of North America -- Great Plains -- Social life and customs.; Indians of North America -- Great Plains -- Intellectual life.; American literature -- Indian authors -- History and criticism.; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships.; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.; Indian authors -- Family relationships.; Indian authors -- Biography.; Osage Indians.
Description: Carter Revard was born in the Osage Indian Agency town of Pawhuska, Oklahoma. He won a radio quiz scholarship to the University of Tulsa, was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, and in 1952 was given his Osage name by his grandmother and the tribal elders.

How his family coped with the dizzying extremes of the Great Depression and the Osage Oil Boom and with small-town life in the Osage hills is the subject of this book. It is about how Revard came to be a writer and a scholar, how his Osage roots have remained alive, about the alienation of being an Indian who "didn't look Indian," and about finding community, even far from home.

Above all, this is a book about identity, about an Osage son who grew up to find that the world is neither Indian nor white but many colors in between.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.