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<p><br>the Customary Cant About Being An American Indian Goes Like This&#58; Indians Must Live In Wide Open Spaces; They Must Define Their Spirituality By Chant, Dance, And Drum; They Must Pass Down Their Traditions With Reverent Care; And They Must Offer Tourists Indian Art And Indian Experiences To Take Home. On One Side Of Commercial Indianness There Is Sloppy Sentimentality, And On The Other, Speechless Hatred. <p>but What Of Those Born Between, Like W. S. Penn, With An Anglo Parent Demanding That Indianness Be Abandoned And An Indian Parent Clinging To All That Can Be Held? What Of Those Who Grew Up In The Cities? Can They Express More Than Confusion, Frustration, And Rage? Are There Alternatives To Assimilation, Submission, Or Revolt?</p><p>in All My Sins Are Relatives Penn Finds In His Own Family Three Generations Trying To Come To Terms With Their Differences And Their Indianness. Within Its Pages, Penn Describes Learning The Depths Of His Love For His Grandfather, To Whom He Dedicated This Book. &#8220;as Arrogant As Youth Can Be, I Was Often Too Busy Silently Grading His Grammar To Pay Real Attention And See What He Was Giving Me.&#8221; Among The Gifts Was An Awareness O

Author

Francis Paul Prucha

Publisher

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press

Published

1981

Language

EN

ISBN

9780803237094

Subjects

History, Western, Humanities