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Birding While Indian : A Mixed-Blood Memoir by Thomas C. Gannon (2023, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherOhio State University Press

ISBN-100814258727

ISBN-139780814258729

eBay Product ID (ePID)4058360532

Product Key Features

Book TitleBirding While Indian : a Mixed-Blood Memoir

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2023

TopicNative Americans, Birdwatching Guides, Essays, United States / General

IllustratorYes

GenreNature, Biography & Autobiography, History

AuthorThomas C. Gannon

Book SeriesMachete Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight11.1 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2022-057434

Reviews"Lyrical and evocative ... Gannon's ruminations on his identity crisis hold undeniable power." -- Publishers Weekly, "Since time immemorial, Native people have looked for signs from avian beings, and here, Thomas Gannon carries on those traditions in his wry chronicles about growing up and living on the Great Plains. This is a much-needed and much-appreciated addition to Native literature. Birding While Indian is all that and a bag of tobacco." --Tiffany Midge, author of Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's, " Birding While Indian provides a thoughtful contribution to Native American and environmental studies. It deserves to be widely read, particularly as we battle the twin global crises of structural racism and environmental collapse ... it's an honest memoir with sensitive nature writing, a testimony to the non-human world's ability to provide human solace." --Glen Retief, River Teeth, "Birding While Indianprovides a thoughtful contribution to Native American and environmental studies. It deserves to be widely read, particularly as we battle the twin global crises of structural racism and environmental collapse ... it's an honest memoir with sensitive nature writing, a testimony to the non-human world's ability to provide human solace." --Glen Retief, River Teeth, "Gannon takes us along on his journey through a part of the nation that is often ignored or misunderstood, and despite plenty of heartache and sorrow, he offers much-needed moments of levity. ... Whether recounting his encounters with a great horned owl, sandhill crane, wood duck, field sparrow, bald eagle, white stork, or snowy egret, the author is consistently engaging and thoughtful about his place in a world that we share with a wondrous assortment of other species. A fascinating search for personal and cultural identity." -- Kirkus, "[Tracks] the devastating and far-reaching impacts of colonialism through an interweaving of history, philosophy, poetry and [Gannon's] personal experiences with birds." --Molly Adams, The Washington Post, "[Tracks] the devastating and far-reaching impacts of colonialism through an interweaving of history, philosophy, poetry and [Gannon's] personal experiences with birds." --Molly Adams, the Washington Post

Dewey Edition23/eng/20230207

Dewey Decimal978.004/9752440092 B

Table Of ContentPreface: The Lifelook March 1965, Piss Hill: Great Horned Owl July 1967, Piss Hill: Lewis's Woodpecker January 1968, Rapid Creek: Common Goldeneye June 1969, I-90: Western Meadowlark April 1970, Fort Pierre / Missouri River: Sandhill Crane June 1970, a Fort Pierre Slough: Wood Duck August 1971, Saskatchewan: Western Grebe May 1977, a Rapid City Marsh: Red-Winged Blackbird June 1978, Spearfish Canyon: American Dipper June 1979, a Pennington County Dirt Road: Common Nighthawk August 1981, Old Faithful: Common Raven June 1983, a Pennington County Dirt Road: Long-Billed Curlew June 1985, Skyline Drive: Field Sparrow June 1985, Fort Morgan, CO: House Finch September 1987, Northern Black Hills: Mourning Dove December 1987, Belle Fourche, SD: [Species Unknown] January 1989, Rapid City, SD: European Starling January 1991, Gavins Point Dam: Long-Tailed Duck April 2001, U of Iowa English-Philosophy Building: Common Grackle February 2003, Kirk Funeral Home: Prairie Falcon April 2003, U of Iowa English-Philosophy Building: Northern Cardinal May 2003, Clay County Park: Bald Eagle June 2004, Ardmore, OK: Northern Mockingbird June 2005, Folsom Children's Zoo: White Stork June 2006, Crazy Horse Memorial: Turkey Vulture July 2008, Kountze Lake: Snowy Egret August 2008, Fontenelle Forest: House Wren May 2009, the Lake beside Lakeside, NE: Black-Necked Stilt May 2009, Devils Tower: American Goldfinch May 2009, Little Bighorn Battlefield: Eurasian Collared-Dove May 2009, Bowdoin National Wildlife Refuge: Marbled Godwit July 2009, Pioneers Park: Brown-Headed Cowbird June 2010, Idyllwild, CA: Steller's Jay June 2010, Spirit Mound: Dickcissel May 2011, Wilderness Park: Veery December 2011, Highway 385: Ferruginous Hawk May 2012, Indian Cave State Park: Chuck-Will's-Widow June 2012, Custer State Park: Canyon Wren June 2012, Millwood State Park: Black-Bellied Whistling-Duck July 2012, Newton Hills State Park: Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker July 2012, Morrison Park: Lesser Goldfinch May 2013, Pawnee Lake State Recreation Area: Bonaparte's Gull May 2014, El Segundo Beach: Brown Pelican March 2015, Pawnee Lake State Recreation Area: American Robin July 2016, Medicine Bow National Forest-Vedauwoo: Dusky Flycatcher November 2017, Lewis and Clark Lake: Snowy Owl March 2018, West Platte River Drive: Whooping Crane May 2018, Little Bighorn Battlefield: Red-Tailed Hawk Coda: Birding While Indian

SynopsisWinner, 2024 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize "A fascinating search for personal and cultural identity." -- Kirkus Thomas C. Gannon's Birding While Indian spans more than fifty years of childhood walks and adult road trips to deliver, via a compendium of birds recorded and revered, the author's life as a part-Lakota inhabitant of the Great Plains. Great Horned Owl, Sandhill Crane, Dickcissel: such species form a kind of rosary, a corrective to the rosaries that evoke Gannon's traumatic time in an Indian boarding school in South Dakota, his mother's devastation at racist bullying from coworkers, and the violent erasure colonialism demanded of the people and other animals indigenous to the United States. Birding has always been Gannon's escape and solace. He later found similar solace in literature, particularly by Native authors. He draws on both throughout this expansive, hilarious, and humane memoir. An acerbic observer--of birds, the environment, the aftershocks of history, and human nature--Gannon navigates his obsession with the ostensibly objective avocation of birding and his own mixed-blood subjectivity, searching for that elusive Snowy Owl and his own identity. The result is a rich reflection not only on one man's life but on the transformative power of building a deeper relationship with the natural world., Catalogs a lifetime of bird sightings to explore the part-Lakota author's search for identity and his reckoning with colonialism's violence against Indigenous humans, animals, and land.

LC Classification NumberE99.T34G36 2023