Grandchildren of the Buffalo Soldiers and Other Untold StoriesPosted in Books, History, Identity Development/Psychology, Monographs, Native Americans/First Nation, United States on 2011-11-09 02:05Z by Steven |
Grandchildren of the Buffalo Soldiers and Other Untold Stories
UCLA American Indian Studies Center
2009
375 pages
10-digit ISBN: 0-935626-59-X
13-digit ISBN: 978-0-935626-59-9
William S. Yellow Robe Jr., Playwright, Director, Poet, Actor, Writer, and Educator
Edited by:
Margo Lukens, Associate Professor of English
University of Maine
Five Plays by William S. Yellow Robe Jr.
This collection of five plays portrays the complex issues that arise when mixed-blood American Indian characters come up against traditional Native beliefs. It shows how legislated and internalized racism has ravaged human relationships and created divisive struggles within Native American families and communities. The title play, Grandchildren of the Buffalo Soldiers, examines the lingering effects of colonial exploitation of tensions between African American and Native American people in the nineteenth century. All of Yellow Robe’s plays meditate on “the returning” to home, to community, and how the matter of belonging is a privilege.
Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- A Stray Dog
- Grandchildren of the Buffalo Soldiers
- Mix Blood Seeds
- Better-n-Indins
- Pieces of Us: How the Lost Find Home
- Biographies