| I Do Not Apologize for the Length of This Letter: The Mari Sandoz Letters on Native American Rights, 1940-1965 Contributor(s): Lee, Kimberli A. (Editor), Wunder, John R. (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0896726665 ISBN-13: 9780896726666 Publisher: Texas Tech University Press OUR PRICE: $40.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 2009 Annotation: Selected letters of Nebraska author Mari Sandoz (1896-1966) that highlight her zealous advocacy for Native Americans |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Native American - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - Literary Collections | Letters |
| Dewey: 978.004 |
| LCCN: 2009028080 |
| Series: Plains Histories |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.3" W x 9.2" (1.05 lbs) 216 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Native American - Chronological Period - 1940's - Chronological Period - 1950's - Chronological Period - 1960's - Cultural Region - Plains |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Now it is time for you to read the letters of Mari Sandoz. If it has been a clear summer day and it is near sundown, take this book and a cool drink outside and soak in the wisdom of a writer with a cause. --John R. Wunder, from the foreword Author Mari Sandoz was as passionate about Plains peoples as she was about language and literary acclaim. That the mastery of Crazy Horse's biographer spilled into her zealous advocacy for Native Americans is scarcely surprising. An avid letter writer, Sandoz kept carbons of everything. Fortunately these came into the Sandoz Collection at the University of Nebraska Archives, organized by Kimberli A. Lee, foremost expert on Sandoz's writings. Though Sandoz richly deserves attention, recent scholarship is scant. In arranging and analyzing this correspondence, Lee reinstates Sandoz as one of the most significant non-Native chroniclers and advocates for Plains Indian cultures. There is much here for historians and other scholars of American Indian, Great Plains, rhetorical, and women's studies. Yet Sandoz's wider fan base should not be surprised to hearken to a voice and ardor they will find well familiar. |