Men on the Moon
Subtitle: Collected Short Stories
By: by Simon J. Ortiz.
Series: Sun tracks ;
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Tucson, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
Subjects: Indians of North America -- New Mexico -- Fiction.; Acoma Indians -- Fiction.; New Mexico -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "When Faustin, the old Acoma, is given his first television set, he considers it a technical wonder, a box full of mystery. What he sees on its screen that first day, however, is even more startling than the television itself: men have landed on the moon. Can this be real?"--BOOK JACKET.

"True to Native American tradition, these tales possess the immediacy - and intimacy - of stories conveyed orally. They are drawn from Ortiz's Acoma Pueblo experience but focus on situations common in Native people, whether living on the land or in cities, and on the issues that affect their lives. We meet Jimmo, a young boy learning that his father is being hunted for murder, and Kaiser, the draft refuser who always wears the suit he was given when he left prison.

We also meet some curious Anglos: radicals supporting Indian causes, scholars studying Indian ways, and San Francisco hipples who want to become Indians, too."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Men on the moon; title: Home country; title: Howbah Indians; title: Kaiser and the War; title: The way you see horses; title: Feathers; title: More than anything else in the world; title: Something's going on; title: The killing of a state cop; title: Where o where; title: Loose; title: The panther waits; title: The end of Old Horse; title: To change life in a good way; title: The San Francisco Indians; title: You were real, the white radical said to me; title: What Indians do; title: Anything; title: A story of Rios and Juan Jesus; title: Feeling old; title: 3 women; title: Distance; title: Woman singing; title: Crossing; title: Hiding, west of here; title: Pennstuwehniyaahtse: Quuti's story.