The Dance Boots by 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.
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.
Grover, Linda Legarde: - Linda LeGarde Grover is a member of the Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe and a professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth. She is the author of The Dance Boots (University of Georgia Press, 2010), which received the Flannery O'Connor award and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, and of The Road Back to Sweetgrass (University of Minnesota Press, 2014), winner of the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers 2015 fiction award and the Red Mountain Editor's Award.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780820342177 |
| ISBN 10 | 0820342173 |
| Title | The Dance Boots |
| Author | Linda Legarde Grover |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
| Year published | 2012-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 152 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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