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Linda LeGarde Grover The Dance Boots (Paperback). Author: Linda LeGarde Grover. In this stirring collection of linked stories, Linda LeGarde Grover portrays an Ojibwe community struggling to follow traditional ways of life in the face of a relentlessly changing world. Further DetailsTitle: The Dance Boots Condition: New Subtitle: Stories EAN: 9780820342177 Format: Paperback Author: Linda LeGarde Grover ISBN: 9780820342177 Publisher: University of Georgia Press Release Date: 04/01/2012 Description: In this stirring collection of linked stories, Linda LeGarde Grover portrays an Ojibwe community struggling to follow traditional ways of life in the face of a relentlessly changing world.In the title story an aunt recounts the harsh legacy of Indian boarding schools that tried to break the indigenous culture. In doing so she passes on to her niece the Ojibwe tradition of honoring elders through their stories. In “Refugees Living and Dying in the West End of Duluth,” this same niece comes of age in the 1970s against the backdrop of her forcibly dispersed family. A cycle of boarding schools, alcoholism, and violence haunts these stories even as the characters find beauty and solace in their large extended families.With its attention to the Ojibwe language, customs, and history, this unique collection of riveting stories illuminates the very nature of storytelling. The Dance Boots narrates a century’s evolution of Native Americans making choices and compromises, often dictated by a white majority, as they try to balance survival, tribal traditions, and obligations to future generations. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Genre: Fiction Item Height: 216mm Item Length: 140mm Item Width: 10mm Item Weight: 227g Series: Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction Release Year: 2012 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
