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I Am Where I Come From : Native American College Students and Graduates Tell Their Life Stories.

Garrod, Andrew C.

I Am Where I Come From : Native American College Students and Graduates Tell Their Life Stories. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (302 pages)

I AM WHERE I COME FROM -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction: Coming Home -- PART I. BROKEN: RACIAL MIXTURE AND CULTURAL HYBRIDITY -- 1. Seeking to Be Whole -- 2. Bringing Back a Piece of the Sky -- 3. Chahta hattak sia , "I Am a Choctaw Man" -- PART II. AN INDIAN EDUCATION: LEAVING AND FINDING HOME AT DARTMOUTH COLLEGE -- 4. Nihalgai Bahane', A Fourth-World Story -- 5. Bracelets Upon My Soul -- 6. My Journey to Healing -- PART III. FULL CIRCLE: RETURNING AND REMAKING HOME -- 7. Little Woman from Lame Deer -- 8. Village Girl -- 9. Future Ancestor -- 10. An Unpredictable Journey -- PART IV. CONTINUING EDUCATION: NADS REFLECT ON THEIR JOURNEYS -- 11. I Walk in Beauty -- 12. The Good Ol' Days When Times Were Bad -- 13. Why Didn't You Teach Me? -- Notes -- About the Editors and Author of the Foreword.

I Am Where I Come From presents the autobiographies of thirteen Native American undergraduates and graduates of Dartmouth College, ten of them current and recent students.

9781501708022


Minority college graduates--New Hampshire--Hanover--Biography.


Electronic books.

E97.65.N4.I26 2017

378.1/9829707423

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