Birding While Indian: A Mixed-Blood Memoir by Gannon, Thomas C.

Birding While Indian: A Mixed-Blood Memoir

Winner, 2024 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize "A fascinating search for personal and cultural identity." --Kirkus...
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Author: Thomas C. Gannon
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Birding While Indian: A Mixed-Blood Memoir by Gannon, Thomas C.

Birding While Indian: A Mixed-Blood Memoir

$30.44

Birding While Indian: A Mixed-Blood Memoir

$30.44
Author: Thomas C. Gannon
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Winner, 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.

Author: Thomas C. Gannon
Publisher: Mad Creek Books
Published: 06/27/2023
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780814258729


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/10/2023
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2023

About the Author
Thomas C. Gannon is an associate professor of English and ethnic studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a lifelong birder and inhabitant of the Great Plains. He is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe.

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