The Shoshoneans : the people of the Basin-Plateau

Book

The Shoshoneans : the people of the Basin-Plateau / Text by Edward Dorn ; photographs by Leroy Lucas ; foreword by Simon J. Ortiz ; edited by Matthew Hofer.

Dorn, Edward. (Author). Lucas, Leroy, (photographer.). Hofer, Matthew, (editor.).

Summary:

"A path-breaking photo narrative of Dorn and African-American photographer Leroy Lucas's mid-1960s travels through Shoshoni Indian country (Nevada, Idaho, Wyoming, and Utah) to paint a stark tableau of modern Native life"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780826353818
ISBN: 0826353819
Physical Description: 165 pages, 64 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Edition: Expanded edition.
Publisher: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2013.

Content descriptions

General Note:: Originally published: New York ; William Morrow & Company, 1966.
Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:: Foreword / Simon J. Ortiz -- [Chapters I-X] -- Poverty, community, and power / Clyde Warrior -- Endnotes -- Appendix, Historical and archival materials / introduced and annotated by Matthew Hofer: Introduction: Few / people are lost as I am": Ed Dorn through the Great Basin Plateau ; Poems by Edward Dorn ; Archival letters from and to Edward Dorn -- Unpublished essay by Edward Dorn: Ed Dorn in Santa Fe ; Transcribed lecture by Edward Dorn: "The poet, the people, the spirit" ; Transcribed conversation with Edward Dorn and Charles Olson: from Reading at Berkeley--the day after ; 1965 preface to Edward Dorn's Idaho out.