The Good Red Road: Passages into Native America
by Kenneth Lincoln
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In 1975 Kenneth Lincoln went on the road with his small daughter and four students, traveling from Los Angeles through Arizona, New Mexico, Nebraska, and the Dakotas, searching for the essence of the Indian experience in modern America. His gritty but poetic account of this trip explores the challenges facing native peoples. The Good Red Road captures the tension between Indians and whites, reveals the continuing importance of religion among the Lakotas, and depicts the differences among show more Indians. Finally, the book is a journey of self-discovery by Lincoln and his students, one of them coauthor Al Logan Slagle, a Cherokee Indian and later an advocate for Indian rights. show lessTags
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In 1975, Lincoln and four of his students take a summer road trip from Los Angeles through Arizona, New Mexico, Nebraska, to the Dakotas - - home of his youth. They search for understanding and meaning in contemporary Indian life; identifying the continuing struggles and tensions between Indians and whites. The book is also a journal of self-discovery for Kenneth Logan and his students; one of them Al Logan Slagle, a Cherokee. (lj)
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- Then when he had been still a little while to hear the birds sing, he spoke again: "Behold the earth!" So I looked down and saw it lying yonder like a hoop of peoples, and in the center bloomed the holy stick that was a tree... (show all), and where it stood there crossed two roads, a red one and a black. "From where the giant lives (the north) to where you always face (the south) the red goes, the road of good," the Grandfather said, "and on it shall your nation walk. The black road goes from where the thunder beings live (the west) to where the sun continuallys hines (the east), a fearful road, a road of troubles and of war. On this also you shall walk, and from it you shall have the power to destroy a people's foes. In four ascents you shall walk the earth with power." ---John Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks, 1932
Real soon, now, this is a turning point. The hoop, the sacred hoop was broken here at Wounded Knee, and it will come back again. The stake here that represents the tree of life, the tree will bloom, it will flower again, an... (show all)d all the people will rejoin and come back to the sacred road, the red road. ---Wallace Black Elk, Wounded Knee, 1973 - Dedication
- To Mark Monroe and in memory of Jenny and Felix Lone Wolf, Minnie and Bill Moonroe, Emma Monroe, Terry Monroe, Candi Monroe, Lawrence Antoine, John (Fire) Lame Deer, Dawson No Horse. One-fourth of this book's proceeds goes t... (show all)o the American Indian Council of Alliance, Nebraska
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- The twists of history today place the majority of American Indians off the reservation.
(Preface) In the spring of 1975 I traveled the Dakotas with a band of UCLA students and my four-year-old daughter.
(Forward) The Good Red Road is a record of contemporary Americans, Indian and non-Indian, searching for a cultural heritage. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)I knew I was back home in L.A.
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- Momaday, N. Scott; Least Heat Moon, William; Merwin, W. S.
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