In the Land of the Grasshopper Song: Two Women in the Klamath River Indian Country in 1908-09

In 1908 easterners Mary Ellicott Arnold and Mabel Reed accepted appointments as field matrons in Karuk tribal...
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Author: Mary Ellicott Arnold
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In the Land of the Grasshopper Song: Two Women in the Klamath River Indian Country in 1908-09 by Arnold, Mary Ellicott

In the Land of the Grasshopper Song: Two Women in the Klamath River Indian Country in 1908-09

Dhs. 122.42

In the Land of the Grasshopper Song: Two Women in the Klamath River Indian Country in 1908-09

Dhs. 122.42
Author: Mary Ellicott Arnold
Format: Paperback
Language: English

In 1908 easterners Mary Ellicott Arnold and Mabel Reed accepted appointments as field matrons in Karuk tribal communities in the Klamath and Salmon River country of northern California. In doing so, they joined a handful of white women in a rugged region that retained the frontier mentality of the gold rush some fifty years earlier. Hired to promote the federal government's assimilation of American Indians, Arnold and Reed instead found themselves adapting to the world they entered, a complex and contentious territory of Anglo miners and Karuk families.

In the Land of the Grasshopper Song, Arnold and Reed's account of their experiences, shows their irreverence towards Victorian ideals of womanhood, recounts their respect toward and friendship with Karuks, and offers a rare portrait of women's western experiences in this era. Writing with self-deprecating humor, the women recall their misadventures as women "in a white man's country" and as whites in Indian country. A story about crossing cultural divides, In the Land of the Grasshopper Song also documents Karuk resilience despite seemingly insurmountable odds.

New material by Susan Bernardin, Andr Cramblit, and Terry Supahan provides rich biographical, cultural, and historical contexts for understanding the continuing importance of this story for Karuk people and other readers.



Author: Mary Ellicott Arnold, Mabel Reed
Publisher: Bison Books
Published: 12/01/2011
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780803236370

About the Author
Mary Ellicott Arnold (1876-1968) and Mabel Reed (1876-1962), partners in life and work, were activists known for their foundational work for the cooperative movement, most notably their leadership of the Consumers Cooperative Services. Susan Bernardin is an associate professor of English at SUNY College at Oneonta and a coauthor of Trading Gazes: Euro-American Women Photographers and Native North Americans, 1880-1940. André Cramblit is the operations director for the Northern California Indian Development Council. Terry Supahan is the president of Supahan Consulting Group, which provides guidance to tribes, rural governments, and community development organizations.

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