Viet Cong at Wounded Knee: The Trail of a Blackfeet Activist - Couverture souple

Kipp, Woody

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0803216416 ISBN 13 : 9780803216419

Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 2008

Synopsis

It was at Wounded Knee, huddled under a night sky lit by military flares and the searchlights of armored personnel carriers, that Vietnam vet Woody Kipp realized that he, as an American Indian, had become the enemy, the Viet Cong, to a country that he had defended at the risk of his life. With candor, bitter humor, and biting insight, this book tells the story of the long and tortuous trail that led Kipp from the Blackfeet Reservation of his birth to a terrible moment of reckoning on the plains of South Dakota. Kipp's is a story of Native values and practices uneasily intersected by cowboy culture, teenage angst, and quintessentially American temptations and excesses. As a boy, Kipp was a passionate reader and basketball player, always ready to brawl and already struggling with discrimination and alcoholism in his teens. From his tour of duty in Vietnam as a Marine to his troubled return, from his hell-raising as a violent, womanizing, hard-drinking horse breaker to his consciousness-raising experiences as a college student and foot soldier in the American Indian Movement, Kipp's memoir offers a unique, firsthand view of the enduring power--and the vulnerability--of Blackfeet culture, of the difficulties inherent in cross-cultural understanding, and of the urgent necessity of overcoming these difficulties if the essential heritage of Native America is to survive.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Woody Kipp is an English instructor at Blackfeet Community College on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Nebraska Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0803216416
• ISBN 13: 9780803216419
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 176
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible