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Author Bunnell, David, author.

Title Good Friday on the rez : a Pine Ridge odyssey / David Hugh Bunnell.

Publication Info. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2017.
©2017

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY BUNNELL    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  978.0049 BUN    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  978.004 BUNNELL    In Transit
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  970.1 BUNNELL    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  970.4783 BUN    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  978.0049 BUN    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  970.1 BUN    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  978.0049 BUNNELL    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xvi, 271 pages, [8] unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-271)
Summary A magnificent mix of memoir and recent Native American history is told through a 280-mile car trip around the Pine Ridge Reservation where the author lived during and after the siege at Wounded Knee, tracking the torment and miraculous resurrection of Native American pride, spirituality and culture.
"Good Friday on the Rez introduces readers to places and people that author, writer, and entrepreneur David Bunnell encounters during his one day, 280-mile road trip from his boyhood Nebraska hometown to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to visit his longtime friend, Vernell White Thunder, a full-blooded Oglala Lakota, descendant of a long line of prominent chiefs and medicine men. This captivating narrative is part memoir and part history. Bunnell shares treasured memories of his time living on and teaching at the reservation. Sometimes raw and sometimes uplifting, Bunnell looks back to expose the difficult life and experiences faced by the descendants of Crazy Horse, Red Cloud, and Sitting Bull while also illuminating their courageous resiliency. Substantive and at times disturbing, Bunnell reflects back to his time on the rez during the violent 70s when he smuggled food to radical Indians at Wounded Knee. Peppered with Vernell White Thunder's spellbinding stories of growing up in a one-room log house with his medicine man grandfather, Bunnell begs the reader to join in on the poignant conversations about present-day Native Americans. Good Friday on the Rez is a dramatic page-turner, an incredible true story that tracks the torment and miraculous resurrection of Native American pride, spirituality, and culture -- how things got to be the way they are, where they are going, and why we should care."-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Indians of North America -- United States -- Civilization.
Oglala Indians -- History.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- United States -- Social conditions.
Subject Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.)
Journalists -- United States -- Biography.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- United States -- Civilization.
Subject White Thunder, Vernell.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Indians, Treatment of -- United States.
Bunnell, David -- Friends and associates.
Indians of North America -- United States -- Social conditions.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Cultural Heritage.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples, Treatment of -- United States.
ISBN 9781250112538 (hardcover)
1250112532 (hardcover)
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