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The ghost dancers a novel

"Lyman "Bean" Wilson, a half-breed Nevada Indian and middle-aged professor of journalism at Lakota University in South Dakota, reassesses his life. The result is a string of family reconnections, sexual adventures, crises at work, pipe and sweat-lodge ceremonies, and-through his membe...

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Main Author: Louis, Adrian C. (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Reno : University of Nevada Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Indians of North America > South Dakota > Pine Ridge > Fiction.
Ghost dance > Fiction.
Summary: "Lyman "Bean" Wilson, a half-breed Nevada Indian and middle-aged professor of journalism at Lakota University in South Dakota, reassesses his life. The result is a string of family reconnections, sexual adventures, crises at work, pipe and sweat-lodge ceremonies, and-through his membership in the secret Ghost Dancers Society-political activism, culminating in a successful plot to blow the nose off of the George Washington statue on Mt. Rushmore"--
Physical Description: xi, 247 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN: 9781647790240
1647790247
Author Notes: Adrian C. Louis (1946-2018) was a half-breed member of the Lovelock Paiute Tribe. He published over a dozen collections of poetry (including two with the University of Nevada Press), a collection of short stories ( Wild Indians and Other Creatures , University of Nevada Press), and another novel, Skins , which was made into a movie. His work has been translated into French, Hungarian, and other languages. Louis is remembered for his aggressive refusal to romanticize life on or off the reservation.

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