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The first work of fiction published in the new Native American Series, Indian Summers concerns issues of identity for Native Americans. Set against the backdrop of a contemporary reservation that has had its own losses to the dominant culture -- a third of its total land mass taken earlier in the century for a New York State water reservoir, its only religious structures Christian churches -- Indian Summers introduces these identity conflicts through the lives and circumstances of its major characters. This is a time when belonging to a tribe is difficult, when dominant societal forces encourage either the acts of abandoning a perceived anachronistic lifestyle or of embracing one of a number of simplistic, prescribed, false identities: warrior, environmentalist, crystal-carrying shaman. None of these options is real for the individuals who populate these pockets of different -- not alternative -- societies. The people who live these lives do not explore alternatives, nor do they necessarily have the desire to -- inextricably entwined as they are with their families, culture, history, and land.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Indian Summers
• Author: Eric Gansworth
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 210
• EAN: 9780870134791
• ISBN: 9780870134791
• ID: 06342400
• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Weight: 335 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. December 1998

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