That Guy Wolf Dancing (American Indian Studies)
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (784 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1611861381 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 130 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-09 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn combines the brilliance and suspense of a life that becomes a complex web of historical realities, contemporary subjectivity, and spiritual materialism. —Zia Meranto, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Creator and Director of the Native American Studies Program
Having never taken himself too seriously, he now faces a world that feels very foreign to him. As he struggles to adapt to the modern universe, Philip, ever a wolf dancer,” must improvise, this time to a sound others provide for him. Like the wolf, Philip sometimes feels hunted, outrun, verging on extinction. Rooted in tribal-world consciousness, That Guy Wolf Dancing is the story of a young tribal wolf-man becoming a part of his not-sonatural world of non-tribal people. From one of the writers of the twentieth-century Native American Literary Renaissance comes a remarkable tale about how to acknowledge the past and take a chance on the future. When he leaves, he doesn’t tell anyone where he is going or what his plans, if he has any, might be. Twenty-something Philip Big Pipe disappears from an unsettled life he can hardly tolerate and ends up in an of