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Lädt ... Spirit Car: Journey to a Dakota Pastvon Diane Wilson
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. A woman begins the healing of her family's troubled past by researching and reclaiming her Native American roots. ( ) The city where I live chose this book as their annual City Reads event. I appreciate the opportunity to read a local author's story about Minnesota and South Dakota history that is not well known. The cities and landmarks Wilson mentions are places I've been to numerous times but have never been aware of the tragic events that took place. Wilson beautifully combines her journey to discover her family's history with the grim facts of the 1862 Dakota War. This book is inspirational to reflect more on family ancestry and where we come from. After reading this book I decide to learn more about the Dakota War. Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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One day I realized that my entire back seat was filled with relatives who wondered why I wasn't paying more attention to their part of the family story. . . . Sooner or later they all come up to the front seat and whisper stories in my ear. Growing up in the 1950s in suburban Minneapolis, Diane Wilson had a family like everybody else's. Her Swedish American father was a salesman at Sears and her mother drove her brothers to baseball practice and went to parent-teacher conferences. But in her thirties, Diane began to wonder why her mother didn't speak of her past. So she traveled to South Dakota and Nebraska, searching out records of her relatives through six generations, hungering to know their stories. She began to write a haunting account of the lives of her Dakota Indian family, based on research, to recreate their oral history that was lost, or repressed, or simply set aside as gritty issues of survival demanded attention. Spirit Car is an exquisite counterpoint of memoir and carefully researched fiction, a remarkable narrative that ties modern Minnesotans to the trauma of the Dakota War. Wilson found her family's love and humor--and she discovered just how deeply our identities are shaped by the forces of history. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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