Peter Razor

While the Locust Slept (eBook, ePUB)

A Memoir

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In stark, haunting prose, first-time author Peter Razor recalls his early years as a ward of the State of Minnesota. Disclosing his story through flashbacks and relying on research from his own case files, Razor pieces together the shattered fragments of his boyhood into a memoir that reads as compellingly as a novel. Abandoned as an infant at the State Public School in Owatonna, Minnesota, Peter Razor is raised by abusive workers who thought of him as nothing more than "a dirty Injun." Cut off from his family and his heritage, he turns inward, forced to learn about the world on his own. After failed attempts to run away from the orphanage, he is indentured by the state to an abusive, reclusive farm family. Beaten, poorly fed, clothed in rags, and worked like slave labor, he struggles to attend high school and begins to dream of another life. Razor's stark and often chilling story, devoid of self-pity, recalls with haunting clarity the years he, like the locust, patiently waited to awaken and emerge.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Minnesota Historical Society Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780873517072
• Artikelnr.: 49829521

Autorenporträt

Peter Razor, a first-time author at age 72, is an enrolled member of the Fond du Lac Band of Ojibwa and great-grandson of Mrs. Frank Razer of the White Earth Reservation, whose beadwork was studied by Frances Densmore in the book Chippewa Customs (MNHS Press). As an adult, Razor researched his past and his culture and began dancing in powwows and learning to make traditional garments. In recent years he has received acclaim for the instruments he makes, including hand drums, rattles, and jingles.