David Joseph Charpentier

The Boy Who Promised Me Horses

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Produktbeschreibung

A teacher and mentor to students at St. Labre Indian School, David Joseph Charpentier details the joys, dangers, and complexities of life on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in this thoughtful tribute to one of his more memorable students, Maurice Prairie Chief.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 145mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 492g
• ISBN-13: 9781496238078
• ISBN-10: 1496238079
• Artikelnr.: 68284762

Autorenporträt

David Joseph Charpentier is the director of St. Labre Indian School’s Alumni Support Program and executive director of the Bridge Foundation. For more information about the author, visit davidjcharpentier.com.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Foreword by He’seota’e Miner
Acknowledgments
1. As Brief as His Life
2. What I Knew
3. Cool, Indian Kids!
4. Teacher Dave from Minnesota
5. Fishing at Sitting Man Dam
6. Needed: High School English Teacher
7. Sleep, without Restless Dreams
8. I’ve Never Been Good at Algebra
9. Chimney Rock
10. Labor Day Powwow
11. Eagleman and Hawkman
12. Peyote Meeting at the Medicine Bull’s
13. The Search for Fisher’s Butte
14. New Possibilities That Felt like Gifts
15. Sweat Hobo
16. Stag Rock and Birthdays at the Runs Above’s
17. Get Studly to Run
18. It Makes Me Think of Uncle Doug
19. The Huckleberry Party and Others
20. The Balance of This Day
21. Pissing the Day Away
22. Hawkman Tries to Say Goodbye to Eagleman
23. What Elaine Littlebird Said
24. Time and Distance
25. You Don’t Wanna Help Me, Then, Do You?
26. Shooting Star
27. I Should Have Known More
28. Swallowed by the Darkness
29. He Knows How to Ride
30. I Wanted Him to Stay
31. All the Words I Was Forming, I Held Onto
32. Wrong about Buffalo One More Time