No one ever asked me: the World War II memoirs of an Omaha Indian soldier
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Main Author: Stabler, Hollis Dorion 1918-2007 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lincoln University of Nebraska Press ©2005
Series:American Indian lives
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-177) and index
Wanonshe: Soldier -- Operation Torch -- Operation Husky -- Operation Shingle -- Operation Anvil/Dragoon -- Tígthe: Home -- Conclusion -- Afterword -- Appendix: Hollis Stabler genealogy
As a young adolescent, Hollis Dorion Stabler underwent a Native ceremony in which he was given the new name Na-zhin-thia, Slow to Rise. It was a name that no white person asked to know during Hollis's tour of duty in Anzio, his unacknowledged difference as an Omaha Indian adding to the poignancy of his uneasy fellowship with foreign and American soldiers alike. Stabler's story-coming of age on the American plains, going to war, facing new estrangement upon coming home-is a universal one, rendered wonderfully strange and personal by Stabler's uncommon perspective, which embraces two worlds, and by his unique voice
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 183 pages)
ISBN:0803252919
1280360836
9780803252912
9781280360831

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