No One Ever Asked Me: The World War II Memoirs of an Omaha Indian Soldier (American Indian Lives)

Description

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. Stabler's experiences during World War II—tours of duty in Tunisia and Morocco as well as Italy and France, and the loss of his brother in battle—are at the center of this powerful memoir, which tells of growing up as an Omaha Indian in the small-town Midwest of Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, and Oklahoma in the 1920s and 1930s. A descendant of the Indians who negotiated with Lewis and Clark on the Missouri River, Stabler describes a childhood that was a curious mixture of progressivism and Indian tradition, and that culminated in his enlisting in the old horse cavalry when war broke out—a path not so very different from that walked by his ancestors. Victoria Smith, of Cherokee-Delaware descent, interweaves historical insight with Stabler’s vivid reminiscences, providing a rich context for this singular life.

Download FREE

DepositFiles.com

Uploadbox.com

No Mirror(s) Please !!!

http://rapidshare.com/files/189957071/No_One_Ever_Asked_Me.rar

Disclaimer:
Contents of this page are indexed from this page for search purpose only. All actions are under your responsability. Email us to report illegal contents or external links and we'll remove them immediately.

Please check the description for download links if any or do a search to find alternative books.

Can't Download?
Please search mirrors if you can't find download links for "No One Ever Asked Me: The World War II Memoirs of an Omaha Indian Soldier (American Indian Lives)" in "Description" and someone else may update the links. Check the comments when back to find any updates.

Search Mirrors
Maybe some mirror pages will be helpful, search this book at top of this page or click here to find more info.

1. Ebooks list page : 2236
2. Alanis Obomsawin: The Vision of a Native Filmmaker (American Indian Lives)
3. Alanis Obomsawin: The Vision of a Native Filmmaker (American Indian Lives)
4. American Indians and World War II: Toward a New Era in Indian Affairs
5. Food, Farming, and Hunting (American Indian Contributions to the World)
6. Trade, Transportation, And Warfare (American Indian Contributions to the World)
7. Indian Dances of North America: Their Importance in Indian Life
8. Following the Indian Wars: The Story of the Newspaper Correspondents Among the Indian Campaigners
9. The Horse Soldier Vol. II: The Frontier, the Mexican War, the Civil War, the Indian Wars 1851-1880 - Steffen (1978)
10. Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Modern America: From the Indian Wars to the Vietnam War.
11. American Indians in U.S. History (The Civilization of the American Indian Series)
12. A to Z of American Indian Women
13. A to Z of American Indian Women
14. American Indian Food
15. North American Indian
16. American Indian Mythology