Survival on the Rosebud Indian Reservation - Grieser, David Clifford
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Transplanted from what he considered civilization to the desolation of the Rosebud Indian Reservation, a ten-year-old boy becomes resourceful. What he learns will shape the ways in which he eventually would teach. Rather than stunting development, the reservation's history, culture and education become the stimuli for it. The boy immerses himself in the peaceful Lakota culture, reacts against its developing militancy, and eventually learns acceptance. Accustomed to team sports and ice cream shops, the fifth-grader relocates with his family to the reservation in 1957 and finds nothing familiar.…mehr

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Transplanted from what he considered civilization to the desolation of the Rosebud Indian Reservation, a ten-year-old boy becomes resourceful. What he learns will shape the ways in which he eventually would teach. Rather than stunting development, the reservation's history, culture and education become the stimuli for it. The boy immerses himself in the peaceful Lakota culture, reacts against its developing militancy, and eventually learns acceptance. Accustomed to team sports and ice cream shops, the fifth-grader relocates with his family to the reservation in 1957 and finds nothing familiar. He and his friends live in the poorest region of South Dakota; their only resources are their imaginations and curiosity. They explore, build, hunt, and become interested in girls. This is their story of Survival on the Rosebud Indian Reservation. It's easy for a kid to poke fun at foods and traditions different from his own. The author notes, "The more experiences I had with the Lakota culture, the more respect I developed for it. I reached a point at which it was difficult to view the Lakota objectively. I'd become part of them." About the Author: David Clifford Grieser is an educator in Des Moines, Iowa. "Michelangelo once described his sculpting as freeing his subjects from the marble in which they were encased. I felt the same way as I wrote: My subjects and events were encased in a past, and I wanted to eliminate the extraneous surroundings, so that readers could see them. The obstacles, then, were to extract no more or less than what I needed to be accurate. Completing the book was a testament to the Lakota people to whom I owed so much." Publisher's Website: http://sbpra.com/DavidCliffordGrieser
Autorenporträt
David Clifford Grieser was reared by loving parents on an Indian reservation in South Dakota. He earned his bachelor's degree at South Dakota State University and his master's at the University of South Dakota. After teaching English and directing all speech activities at the secondary level, he joined public television to facilitate the use of instructional television in classrooms in Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin and ultimately became a trainer for an insurance company. Grieser is the author of Survival on the Rosebud Indian Reservation and currently is a freelance writer of his preferred medium: the short story.