IN THE LAND OF THE GRASSHOPPER SONG.Two Women in the Klamath River Indian Country 1908-1909.(grass hopper) IN THE LAND OF THE GRASSHOPPER SONG.Two Women in the Klamath River Indian Country 1908-1909.(grass hopper)

ARNOLD,MARY ELLICOTT & REED,Mabel.CRAMBLIT,Andre foreword; BERNARDIN,SUSAN;SUPAHAN,TERRY

ISBN 10: 0803267037 / ISBN 13: 9780803267039

Edité par University of Nebraska Press 1957,1980, Lincoln,NEbraska, 1957

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VERY GOOD Condition.,solid copy.BRIGHT COVER.2 phone #s & cute cat bookplate inner back cover.else clean.; brown PAPERBACK with 3 old photos on cover.early days on Salmon River and Orleans Bar, outdoors life w/ Yurok and Korok Indians; MANY OLD Photos; 5x8"; 313pg pages; NORTHERN CALIFORNIA Indian Culture described. 2 women accepted INDIAN SERVICE Appointments. KLAMATH RIVER AREA BIOGRAPHY. WHITE spine & cover titles on BROWN PAPER covers.,Solid Copy. .

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• Titre: IN THE LAND OF THE GRASSHOPPER SONG.Two Women in the Klamath River Indian Country 1908-1909.(grass hopper) IN THE LAND OF THE GRASSHOPPER SONG.Two Women in the Klamath River Indian Country 1908-1909.(grass hopper)
• Éditeur: University of Nebraska Press 1957,1980, Lincoln,NEbraska
• Date de parution: 1957
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0803267037
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780803267039
• Reliure: Paperback
• Édition: Bison Book; Fourth Printing.
• État de l'article: Very Good

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Synopsis

In 1908, two young women - the authors of this book - accepted Indian Service appointments as field matrons for the Karok Indians in the Klamath and Salmon River country of northern Cali-fornia. Although the area had been the scene of a gold rush some fifty years earlier, they write in the foreword, 'the social life of the Indian - what he believed and the way he felt about things - was very little affected by white influence. The older Indians still had the spaced tatoo marks on their forearms, by which they could measure the length of the string of wampum required to buy a wife...The white men we knew on the Rivers were pioneers of the Old West...All around us was gold country, the land of the saloon and of the six-shooter.' 'Our friends and neighbors carried guns as a matter of course, and used them on occasion. But the account given in these pages is not of these occurrences but of everyday life on the frontier in an Indian village, and what Indians and badmen did and said when they were not engaged in wiping out their friends and neighbors. It is also the account of our own two years in Indian country where, in the sixty-mile stretch between Happy Camp and Orleans, we were the only white women, and most of the time quite scared enough to satisfy anybody.' Mary Ellicott Arnold and Mabel Reed, who had met as children, were an adventurous and devoted twosome for nearly seventy years. Most of their papers from which this work was drawn are located at the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College.