Singing an Indian song
Subtitle: a biography of D'Arcy McNickle
By: Dorothy R. Parker.
Series: American Indian lives
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
Subjects: McNickle, D'Arcy, 1904-1977; Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography; Anthropologists -- United States -- Biography; Indians of North America -- Biography; Western stories -- Authorship
Description: One of the foremost Native American intellectuals of his generation (1904-77), D'Arcy McNickle is best known today for the American Indian history center that carries his name at the Newberry Library in Chicago, and for his novels, The Surrounded (1936), Runner in the Sun (1954), and Wind from an Enemy Sky (1978). Not only a historian and novelist, he was also an anthropologist, BIA official during the heady days of the Indian New Deal, teacher, and founding member of.

the National Congress of American Indians. The child of a Metis mother and white father, he was an enrolled member of the Flathead Tribe of Montana. But first, and largely by choice, he was a Native American who sought to restore pride and self-determination to all Native American people. Based on a wide range of previously untapped sources, this first full-length biography traces the course of McNickle's life from the reservation of his childhood through a career of.

major import to American Indian political and cultural affairs. In so doing it reveals a man who affirmed his own heritage while giving a collective Indian voice to many who had previously seen themselves only in a tribal context.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Bibliography of McNickle's published works: p. [291]-294.