Rez Road Follies: Canoes, Casinos, Computers, and Birch Bark Baskets (Mysteries & Horror) - Softcover

Northrup, Jim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0816634955 ISBN 13: 9780816634958

Publisher: University of Minnesota Press, 1999

Synopsis

The Rez Road Follies The Rex Road Follies captures storyteller, poet, and performer Jim Northrup at his shrewdest and funniest. He tells of the key events of his own life: his childhood in a government boarding school, combat in Vietnam, confronting family tragedies, and becoming a grandfather -- or, as he says, "almost an elder." Northrup writes with equal candor about the reservation's poverty and racism on one hand... Full description

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This work captures storteller, poet, and performer Jim Northrup at his shrewdest and funniest. He tells the key events of his own life: his childhood in a government boarding school, combat in Vietnam, confronting tragedies, and becoming a grandfather.'

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Humorous and hard-hitting tales--now in paperback!
The Rez Road Follies captures storyteller, poet, and performer Jim Northrup at his shrewdest and funniest. He tells of the key events of his own life: his childhood in a government boarding school, combat in Vietnam, confronting family tragedies, and becoming a grandfather—or, as he says, "almost an elder." Northrup writes with equal candor about the reservation’s poverty and racism on one hand, and its kinship and traditions on the other. The Rez Road Follies, filled with keen observations and feisty opinions, is an entertaining feast with a core of hard-earned wisdom.

"Life on the Indian reservation has rarely been discussed with such wit. . . . Northrup succeeds in entertaining while instructing us about modern and ancient Indian cultures." Publishers Weekly

"Jim Northrup’s inside take makes him an ideal navigator through Native American life." City Pages

"It’s nice to have an authentic, nonfiction voice telling it like it is." The Denver Post

Jim Northrup’s column, "The Fond du Lac Follies" is syndicated nationally. His first book, Walking the Rez Road (1995), won a Minnesota Book Award and the Midwest States Book Achievement Award. He lives with his wife and family on the Fond du Lac Reservation in northern Minnesota.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0816634955
• ISBN 13: 9780816634958
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256