Birding while Indian : a mixed-blood memoir
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Published
Columbus : Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press, 2023.
Format
Book
Status
Clallam Bay - Nonfiction (Adult)
978.0049 GANNON
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978.0049 GANNON
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Sequim - Nonfiction (Adult)
978.0049 GANNON
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978.0049 GANNON
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LC Subjects
Bird watchers -- Great Plains -- Biography.
Bird watchers.
Bird watching -- Great Plains.
Bird watching.
Gannon, Thomas C.
Indians of North America -- Great Plains -- Biography.
Indians of North America -- Mixed descent.
Indigenous peoples of North America -- Great Plains -- Biography.
Lakota Indians -- Great Plains -- Biography.
Lakota Indians -- Mixed descent.
Native Americans -- Great Plains -- Biography.
Racially mixed people -- Great Plains -- Biography.
Bird watchers.
Bird watching -- Great Plains.
Bird watching.
Gannon, Thomas C.
Indians of North America -- Great Plains -- Biography.
Indians of North America -- Mixed descent.
Indigenous peoples of North America -- Great Plains -- Biography.
Lakota Indians -- Great Plains -- Biography.
Lakota Indians -- Mixed descent.
Native Americans -- Great Plains -- Biography.
Racially mixed people -- Great Plains -- Biography.
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Published
Columbus : Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press, 2023.
Physical Desc
ix, 239 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-239).
Description
"Catalogs a lifetime of bird sightings to explore the part-Lakota author's search for identity and his reckoning with colonialism's violence against Indigenous humans, animals, and land."--,Provided by publisher.
Description
"Thomas C. Gannon's Birding While Indian spans more than fifty years of childhood walks and adult road trips to deliver, via a compendium of birds recorded and revered, the author's life as a part-Lakota inhabitant of the Great Plains. Great Horned Owl, Sandhill Crane, Dickcissel: such species form a kind of rosary, a corrective to the rosaries that evoke Gannon's traumatic time in an Indian boarding school in South Dakota, his mother's tears when coworkers called her "squaw," and the violent erasure colonialism demanded of the Indigenous humans, animals, and land of the United States. Birding has always been Gannon's escape and solace. He later found similar solace in literature, particularly by Native authors. He draws on both throughout this expansive, hilarious, and humane memoir. An acerbic observer-of birds, of the aftershocks of history, and of human nature-Gannon navigates his obsession with the ostensibly objective avocation of birding and his own mixed-blood subjectivity, searching for that elusive Snowy Owl and his own identity. The result is a rich reflection not only on one man's life but on the transformative power of building a deeper relationship with the natural world."--,Provided by publisher.