Corbett Mack The Life of a Northern Paiute |
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| Author:
| Hittman, Michael |
| ISBN: | 978-0-87417-916-3 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2013 |
| Publisher: | University of Nevada Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $27.95 |
Book Description:
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Corbett Mack (1892-1974), was a Northern Paiute of mixed ancestry, caught between Native American and white worlds. A generation before, his tribe had brought forth the prophet Wovoka, whose Ghost Dance swept the Indian world in the 1890s. Mack's world was a harsh and bitter place after the last Native American uprisings had been brutally crushed; a life of servitude to white farmers and addiction to opium. Hittman uses Mack's own words to retell his story, an uncompromising...
More DescriptionCorbett Mack (1892-1974), was a Northern Paiute of mixed ancestry, caught between Native American and white worlds. A generation before, his tribe had brought forth the prophet Wovoka, whose Ghost Dance swept the Indian world in the 1890s. Mack's world was a harsh and bitter place after the last Native American uprisings had been brutally crushed; a life of servitude to white farmers and addiction to opium. Hittman uses Mack's own words to retell his story, an uncompromising account of a traumatized life that typified his generation, yet nonetheless made meaningful through the perseverance of Paiute cultural traditions.