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Turtle belly : a novel / by Joel Monture.

Monture, Joel. (Author).

Summary:

Life on and off an Indian reservation as experienced by a half-white Mohawk. He is Sam whose home is on the Six Nations reservation in Ontario and who attends college in New Hampshire on an arts scholarship. A first novel by an Indian writer.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0806130105 (alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780806130101 (alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 0806133325 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9780806133324 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: 296 p. ; 22 cm.
  • Publisher: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c1998.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
I arrive -- I awake -- Blood and rain -- There lies my mother -- Shoe laces -- Earth paints -- Corn soup -- The wash rack -- Dancing mares -- Angry world -- Over a hundred miles and hour -- Talking with father in the barn -- A long bus ride across mother earth -- The pink waitress -- The lecture -- Snow night -- Christmas 1970 -- Flying away -- Indian love -- Hangman.
Subject:
Mohawk Indians > Fiction.
Mohawk (Indiens) > Romans.
Genre:
Domestic fiction.
Bildungsromans.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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300 . ‡a296 p. ; ‡c22 cm.
440 0. ‡aAmerican Indian literature and critical studies series ; ‡vv. 25
520 . ‡aLife on and off an Indian reservation as experienced by a half-white Mohawk. He is Sam whose home is on the Six Nations reservation in Ontario and who attends college in New Hampshire on an arts scholarship. A first novel by an Indian writer.
5050 . ‡aI arrive -- I awake -- Blood and rain -- There lies my mother -- Shoe laces -- Earth paints -- Corn soup -- The wash rack -- Dancing mares -- Angry world -- Over a hundred miles and hour -- Talking with father in the barn -- A long bus ride across mother earth -- The pink waitress -- The lecture -- Snow night -- Christmas 1970 -- Flying away -- Indian love -- Hangman.
650 0. ‡aMohawk Indians ‡vFiction.
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650 6. ‡aMohawk (Indiens) ‡xRomans.
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