| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Birth and Family (1892) -- Boyhood (1892-1905) -- Boarding School (1905-10) -- Work and Girls (1912-23) -- Italians, Potatoes, Homemade Wine (1923-58) -- Chinese Opium (1896-1931) -- Some Real Old-Timers (1896-1940) -- Retirement Years (1954-74) -- Epilogue -- Appendix A : Local Newspaper Accounts of Opiates in Smith and Mason Valleys, Nevada (1896-1931) -- Appendix B : Report of Narcotic Situation among the Indians of the Walker River Jurisdiction (1931) -- Appendix C : Narcotics in Smith and Mason Valleys (1929) |
| Summary |
Corbett Mack, a Northern Paiute of mixed ancestry, was caught between Native American and white worlds. A generation before, his tribe had brought forth the prophet Wovoka, whose Ghost Dance swept the Indian world in the 1890s. Mack's world was a harsh and bitter place after the last Native American uprisings had been brutally crushed - a life of servitude to white farmers and addiction to opium. This book uses Mack's own words to retell his story, an uncompromising account of a traumatized life that typified his generation, yet nonetheless made meaningful through the perseverance of Paiute cultural traditions |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Mack, Corbett, 1892-1974.
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| SUBJECT |
Mack, Corbett, 1892-1974 fast |
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Northern Paiute Indians -- Biography
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Northern Paiute Indians -- History
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Northern Paiute Indians -- Social life and customs
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Manners and customs
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Northern Paiute Indians
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Smith Creek Valley (Nev.) -- Social life and customs
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Mason Valley (Nev.) -- Social life and customs
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Nevada -- Mason Valley
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Nevada -- Smith Creek Valley
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780874179163 |
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0874179165 |
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