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- Condition
- ISBN
- 0312278594
- EAN
- 9780312278595
- Binding
- TP
- Book Title
- On the Rez
- Item Length
- 8.2in
- Publisher
- Picador
- Publication Year
- 2001
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Features
- Revised
- Genre
- Social Science
- Topic
- Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 10.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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On the Rez is a sharp, unflinching account of the modern-day American Indian experience, especially that of the Oglala Sioux, who now live on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the plains and badlands of the American West. Crazy Horse, perhaps the greatest Indian war leader of the 1800s, and Black Elk, the holy man whose teachings achieved worldwide renown, were Oglala; in these typically perceptive pages, Frazier seeks out their descendants on Pine Ridge--a/k/a "the rez"--which is one of the poorest places in America today. Along with his longtime friend Le War Lance (whom he first wrote about in his 1989 bestseller, Great Plains ) and other Oglala companions, Frazier fully explores the rez as they visit friends and relatives, go to pow-wows and rodeos and package stores, and tinker with a variety of falling-apart cars. He takes us inside the world of the Sioux as few writers ever have, writing with much wit, compassion, and imagination. In the career of SuAnne Big Crow, for example, the most admired Oglala basketball player of all time, who died in a car accident in 1992, Frazier finds a contemporary reemergence of the death-defying, public-spirited Sioux hero who fights with grace and glory to save her followers. On the Rez vividly portrays the survival, through toughness and humor, of a great people whose culture has helped to shape the American identity.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Picador
ISBN-10
0312278594
ISBN-13
9780312278595
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1783863
Product Key Features
Book Title
On the Rez
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
Revised
Topic
Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies
Publication Year
2001
Genre
Social Science
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
10.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
E99.O3f73 2001
Edition Description
Revised Edition
Reviews
To render the complicated truth, to make a reader see . . . that something wonderful about the American Indian flourishes even in the midst of what one of the residents of Pine Ridge describes as 'just a slum' --that is very difficult. Frazier knows the difference between real emotion and its counterfeits. In his philosophy, there is room for sentiment, and in this book he makes good and evil palpable, and palpably intertwined., "[Frazier] makes an eloquent and impassioned argument for the United States government 's giving back the Black Hills to the Sioux. And he provides some artful digressions on Sioux ideals of heroism, on the Lakota language, and on Indian superstitions and lore . . . As for Mr. Frazier's accounts of his own travels, they are enlivened by a keen eye for detail, and the same delightful sense of the absurd that animated his humor collections."- Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "An astute, personal, and disarmingly frank assessment of life and conflict among the Oglala Sioux on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation . . . [A] remarkably thorough and thoroughly eclectic study."- Kirkus Reviews "Frazier's account of Pine Ridge and of his uncommon friendship with Le War Lance is engaging, resonant."- Evan S. Connell "No citizen interested in reservation life-or in human kindness and human troubles-should fail to read Ian Frazier's gripping story."- Tony Hillerman "A wonderful, painful guidebook to a bitter beautiful land. It all rang true to me."- Martin Cruz Smith "Funny, playful, sly, On the Rez may be the best and most truthful book about the American Indian available today."- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "[Frazier] is like an archaeologist of social sensibilities, paying rapt attention to dialect, landscapes, sounds, and political quirks, then displaying them in artfully simple sentences."- The New Yorker "To render the complicated truth, to make a reader see . . . that something wonderful about the American Indian flourishes even in the midst of what one of the residents of Pine Ridge describes as 'just a slum' -that is very difficult. Frazier knows the difference between real emotion and its counterfeits. In his philosophy, there is room for sentiment, and in this book he makes good and evil palpable, and palpably intertwined."- Tracy Kidder, The New York Times Book Review, [Frazier] is like an archaeologist of social sensibilities, paying rapt attention to dialect, landscapes, sounds, and political quirks, then displaying them in artfully simple sentences., Funny, playful, sly, On the Rez may be the best and most truthful book about the American Indian available today., "[Frazier] makes an eloquent and impassioned argument for the United States government 's giving back the Black Hills to the Sioux. And he provides some artful digressions on Sioux ideals of heroism, on the Lakota language, and on Indian superstitions and lore . . . As for Mr. Frazier's accounts of his own travels, they are enlivened by a keen eye for detail, and the same delightful sense of the absurd that animated his humor collections."-Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "An astute, personal, and disarmingly frank assessment of life and conflict among the Oglala Sioux on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation . . . [A] remarkably thorough and thoroughly eclectic study."-Kirkus Reviews "Frazier's account of Pine Ridge and of his uncommon friendship with Le War Lance is engaging, resonant."-Evan S. Connell "No citizen interested in reservation life-or in human kindness and human troubles-should fail to read Ian Frazier's gripping story."-Tony Hillerman "A wonderful, painful guidebook to a bitter beautiful land. It all rang true to me."-Martin Cruz Smith "Funny, playful, sly, On the Rez may be the best and most truthful book about the American Indian available today."-Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel "[Frazier] is like an archaeologist of social sensibilities, paying rapt attention to dialect, landscapes, sounds, and political quirks, then displaying them in artfully simple sentences."-The New Yorker "To render the complicated truth, to make a reader see . . . that something wonderful about the American Indian flourishes even in the midst of what one of the residents of Pine Ridge describes as 'just a slum' -that is very difficult. Frazier knows the difference between real emotion and its counterfeits. In his philosophy, there is room for sentiment, and in this book he makes good and evil palpable, and palpably intertwined."-Tracy Kidder, The New York Times Book Review, Frazier's account of Pine Ridge and of his uncommon friendship with Le War Lance is engaging, resonant., No citizen interested in reservation life--or in human kindness and human troubles--should fail to read Ian Frazier's gripping story., "[Frazier] makes an eloquent and impassioned argument for the United States government 's giving back the Black Hills to the Sioux. And he provides some artful digressions on Sioux ideals of heroism, on the Lakota language, and on Indian superstitions and lore . . . As for Mr. Frazier's accounts of his own travels, they are enlivened by a keen eye for detail, and the same delightful sense of the absurd that animated his humor collections." -- Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "An astute, personal, and disarmingly frank assessment of life and conflict among the Oglala Sioux on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation . . . [A] remarkably thorough and thoroughly eclectic study." -- Kirkus Reviews "Frazier's account of Pine Ridge and of his uncommon friendship with Le War Lance is engaging, resonant." -- Evan S. Connell "No citizen interested in reservation life--or in human kindness and human troubles--should fail to read Ian Frazier's gripping story." -- Tony Hillerman "A wonderful, painful guidebook to a bitter beautiful land. It all rang true to me." -- Martin Cruz Smith "Funny, playful, sly, On the Rez may be the best and most truthful book about the American Indian available today." -- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "[Frazier] is like an archaeologist of social sensibilities, paying rapt attention to dialect, landscapes, sounds, and political quirks, then displaying them in artfully simple sentences." -- The New Yorker "To render the complicated truth, to make a reader see . . . that something wonderful about the American Indian flourishes even in the midst of what one of the residents of Pine Ridge describes as 'just a slum' --that is very difficult. Frazier knows the difference between real emotion and its counterfeits. In his philosophy, there is room for sentiment, and in this book he makes good and evil palpable, and palpably intertwined." -- Tracy Kidder, The New York Times Book Review, "[Frazier] makes an eloquent and impassioned argument for the United States government 's giving back the Black Hills to the Sioux. And he provides some artful digressions on Sioux ideals of heroism, on the Lakota language, and on Indian superstitions and lore . . . As for Mr. Frazier's accounts of his own travels, they are enlivened by a keen eye for detail, and the same delightful sense of the absurd that animated his humor collections."- Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "An astute, personal, and disarmingly frank assessment of life and conflict among the Oglala Sioux on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation . . . [A] remarkably thorough and thoroughly eclectic study."- Kirkus Reviews "Frazier's account of Pine Ridge and of his uncommon friendship with Le War Lance is engaging, resonant."- Evan S. Connell "No citizen interested in reservation life-or in human kindness and human troubles-should fail to read Ian Frazier's gripping story."- Tony Hillerman "A wonderful, painful guidebook to a bitter beautiful land. It all rang true to me."- Martin Cruz Smith "Funny, playful, sly, On the Rez may be the best and most truthful book about the American Indian available today."- Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel "[Frazier] is like an archaeologist of social sensibilities, paying rapt attention to dialect, landscapes, sounds, and political quirks, then displaying them in artfully simple sentences."- The New Yorker "To render the complicated truth, to make a reader see . . . that something wonderful about the American Indian flourishes even in the midst of what one of the residents of Pine Ridge describes as 'just a slum' -that is very difficult. Frazier knows the difference between real emotion and its counterfeits. In his philosophy, there is room for sentiment, and in this book he makes good and evil palpable, and palpably intertwined."- Tracy Kidder, The New York Times Book Review, [Frazier] makes an eloquent and impassioned argument for the United States government 's giving back the Black Hills to the Sioux. And he provides some artful digressions on Sioux ideals of heroism, on the Lakota language, and on Indian superstitions and lore . . . As for Mr. Frazier's accounts of his own travels, they are enlivened by a keen eye for detail, and the same delightful sense of the absurd that animated his humor collections., An astute, personal, and disarmingly frank assessment of life and conflict among the Oglala Sioux on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation . . . [A] remarkably thorough and thoroughly eclectic study.
Copyright Date
2001
Target Audience
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Lccn
2001-032090
Dewey Decimal
978.3/66
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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