Alison Owings signs INDIAN VOICES

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Alison Owings signs INDIAN VOICES
Start:
January 22, 2012 2:00 pm
End:
January 22, 2012 3:00 pm
Cost:
Free
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Updated:
November 11, 2011

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Indian Voices: Listening to Native Americans (Rutgers $26.95)

“Owings assembles interviews with Native Americans from across the nation that achieve a remarkable level of intimacy. Her descriptions are rich in detail, her stories and statistics captivating. This engrossing, affecting book should be mandatory reading in American history classes..”

(Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“A rich collection that is poignant, funny, heartbreaking, and very real. The vast diversity in Native America is evident. The book is engaging and thoughtfully conceived and effectively communicates Owings’s central thesis—that Native Americans are alive, well, and thriving and have much to teach and share with the rest of us. Recommended for all readers of nonfiction, and highly recommended for anyone living in or near Native communities.”

(Library Journal )

“An important (and entertaining!) new book on Native Americans that lets the real experts do the talking.”

(Indian Country Today )

Alison Owings(website) is the author of three stereotype-challenging oral-history based books, her latest being Indian Voices: Listening to Native Americans, a survey of what a wide variety of Native people have to say about contemporary life, and say with passion and humor. A starred review in Publishers Weekly says her interviews “achieve a remarkable level of intimacy,” and that “this engrossing, affecting book should be mandatory reading in American History classes.”

People interviewed include individuals from the Hopi, Iroquois (Haudenosaunee), Kiowa, Lakota, Lemhi-Shoshone, Lumbee, Navajo, Ojibwe, Osage, Passamaquoddy, Pawnee, Penobscot, Yakama, Yup’ik, and Yurok nations… and a Hawai’ian.

Before writing books, Alison wrote television news, most memorably for CBS anchors Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, Roger Mudd, Bob Schieffer, Ed Bradley, Hughes Rudd, and Charles Kuralt.

The work for which Alison is best known, a New York Times “Notable Book of the Year,” is Frauen: German Women Recall the Third Reich.


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