Whiskey tender : a memoir
(Audiobook CD)
Contributors
Flyte, Charlotte narrator.
Published
New York, NY : Harper Audio, [2024].
Format
Audiobook CD
Edition
Unabridged.
Status
Sequim - Talking Books
AUDBK 978.982 TAFFA
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AUDBK 978.982 TAFFA
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LC Subjects
Farmington (N.M.) -- Biography.
Fort Yuma Reservation (Ariz. and Calif.) -- Biography.
Pueblo Indians -- Fort Yuma Reservation (Ariz. and Calif.) -- Biography.
Pueblo Indians -- New Mexico -- Farmington -- Biography.
Taffa, Deborah Jackson, -- 1969- -- Childhood and youth.
Yuma Indians -- Fort Yuma Reservation (Ariz. and Calif.) -- Biography.
Yuma Indians -- New Mexico -- Farmington -- Biography.
Fort Yuma Reservation (Ariz. and Calif.) -- Biography.
Pueblo Indians -- Fort Yuma Reservation (Ariz. and Calif.) -- Biography.
Pueblo Indians -- New Mexico -- Farmington -- Biography.
Taffa, Deborah Jackson, -- 1969- -- Childhood and youth.
Yuma Indians -- Fort Yuma Reservation (Ariz. and Calif.) -- Biography.
Yuma Indians -- New Mexico -- Farmington -- Biography.
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Published
New York, NY : Harper Audio, [2024].
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
10 audio discs (11 3/4 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Title from container.
Participants/Performers
Read by Charley Flyte.
Description
Deborah Jackson Taffa was raised to believe that some sacrifices were necessary to achieve a better life. Her grandparents, citizens of the Quechan Nation and Laguna Pueblo tribe, were sent to Indian boarding schools run by white missionaries, while her parents were encouraged to take part in governmental job training off the reservation. Assimilation meant relocation, but as Taffa matured into adulthood, she began to question the promise handed down by her elders and by American society: that if she gave up her culture, her land, and her traditions, she would not only be accepted, but would be able to achieve the "American Dream." Taffa traces how a mixed tribe native girl, born on the California Yuma reservation and raised in Navajo territory in New Mexico, comes to her own interpretation of identity, despite her parent's desires for her to transcend the class and "Indian" status of her birth through education, and despite the Quechan tribe's particular traditions and beliefs regarding oral and recorded histories. Taffa's childhood memories unspool into meditations on tribal identity, the rampant criminalization of Native men, governmental assimilation policies, the Red Power movement, and the negotiation between belonging and resisting systemic oppression. Pan-Indian, as well as specific tribal histories and myths, blend with stories of a 1970s and 1980s childhood spent on and off the reservation.