| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 183 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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American Indian lives |
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American Indian lives.
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| Contents |
Wanonshe: Soldier -- Operation Torch -- Operation Husky -- Operation Shingle -- Operation Anvil/Dragoon -- Tígthe: Home -- Conclusion -- Afterword -- Appendix: Hollis Stabler genealogy |
| Summary |
As a young adolescent, Hollis Dorion Stabler underwent a Native ceremony in which he was given the new name Na-zhin-thia, Slow to Rise. It was a name that no white person asked to know during Hollis's tour of duty in Anzio, his unacknowledged difference as an Omaha Indian adding to the poignancy of his uneasy fellowship with foreign and American soldiers alike. Stabler's story-coming of age on the American plains, going to war, facing new estrangement upon coming home-is a universal one, rendered wonderfully strange and personal by Stabler's uncommon perspective, which embraces two worlds, and by his unique voice |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-177) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Stabler, Hollis Dorion.
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| SUBJECT |
Stabler, Hollis Dorion fast |
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Omaha Indians -- Biography
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Marines -- Biography
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Operation Torch, 1942.
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Operation Husky, 1943.
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Operation Dragoon, 1944.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Indian
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
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Armed Forces -- Indian troops
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Marines
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Military participation -- Indian
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Omaha Indians
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Soldat
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Weltkrieg 1939-1945
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Ethnic & Race Studies.
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Gender & Ethnic Studies.
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Social Sciences.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Armed Forces -- Indians.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85065539
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United States
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USA
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Omaha (Volk)
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| Genre/Form |
autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Smith, Victoria, 1953-
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| ISBN |
0803252919 |
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9780803252912 |
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1280360836 |
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9781280360831 |
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