When eleven-year-old Tommy Thompson arrived at a government-run Indian boarding school in 1915, it seemed a last resort for the youngster. Instead, it turned out to be the first step toward a life dedicated to helping others. Thompson went on to become a star athlete and football coach—a Cherokee legend whose story is remembered by many and is now finally told for a wider audience. Following gridiron fame at Northeastern State College, Thompson returned to Sequoyah Vocational School in 1947 as Boys’ Coach and Advisor. More than a thousand boys attended the boarding school during the eleven years he coached there. Writing for readers old and young, Patti Dickinson tells the inspiring story of how this one man made a difference in the lives of a generation of Indian youth. Through football, Thompson taught his boys the skills and values they would need to succeed in life, and twice led his team to the state finals. Dickinson describes the success of that program, including one epic, rain-soaked championship game. She paints compelling portraits of Thompson’s boys—the men whose firsthand stories and reminiscences form the basis of the narrative—and re-creates daily life at the school. To his boys, Thompson was Ah-sky-uh, “the man,” a Cherokee term of respect. Half a century after his death, Sequoyah High School still reveres his memory. This book secures his place in history as it opens a new window on the boarding school experience.
Relates the dangers and adventures of a 20-year-old cowboy's fifty-day journey from Guthrie, Oklahoma, to Hollywood on a Osage Indian pony, carrying only a Colt revolver and a few belongings.
Two days after Sam Blackhawk, full-blood American Indian, becomes head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, his car is fished out of the Potomac River. His daughter, KC Garrett, an attorney with the Department of Justice, is certain it is a case of murder. She turns for help to her former fianc, FBI Special Agent Tony DeMarco, but the closer they get to the truth, the more people die, and KC finds herself in the killer's crosshairs.
M Train börjar och slutar på ett café i New York som har blivit som ett andra hem för Patti Smith. Vid sitt stammisbord i hörnet dricker hon sitt kaffe, gör små anteckningar på servetter, läser böcker och reflekterar över minnen och drömmar, om det som gått förlorat. Med en mild melankoli söker hon tröst i poesin och reser över världen i de stora författarnas fotspår. Hon bjuder också på unika scener från sitt tidigare liv i Detroit med maken Fred Sonic Smith, små stunder av ren lycka och villkorslös kärlek. Det här är en bok för alla som älskar att tillbringa en eftermiddag på ett café, djupt försjunken i bok. M Train är en personlig och poetisk berättelse om livet, konsten och kärleken.
From her legendary album Horses to her most recent releases, Gung Ho and Land 1975 - 2002, this book charts the lyrical journey of a poet and musician whose words have influenced a generation. Illustrated with around 150 photographs as well as original artwork, Patti Smith Complete includes previously unpublished work by renowned photographers documenting close to three decades of creative development. Complete also includes artwork and mementoes from the author's archive and personal reflections drawn from her extensive journals, a record of the time when Rock and Roll made an indelible mark on the world.
The story of musician Patti Smith's career. From her albums Horses to Peace and Noise, it charts the lyrical journey of a poe t a nd musician whose words have influenced a generation. There are nearly 150 photographs and Patti Smith includes her own artwork and mementoes from her journals.
P. Smith revient sur ses années de bohème dans le New York arty des années 1970 et sur son amitié amoureuse avec R. Mapplethorpe, son compagnon de galère et d'inspiration. Elle raconte leur rencontre, leur ascension, qui se fait au détriment de leur amour mais pas de leur lien. Les anecdotes évoquent les grandes heures du Chelsea Hotel et de la Factory, J. Hendrix, A. Warhol ou A. Ginsberg.
There was a place for girls like me...That place was the Booth Memorial Home for unwed mothers. From her opening in Post Summer Blues—This was in the mid-sixties/girls didn't keep their out of wedlock babies/my crime was being stupid and trusting, to her stunning afterward—In those first days/weeks months years/ after she found me/I couldn't stop saying /Daughter—Patti Sullivan's work is simply unforgettable. Her poems collectively constitute a portrait of a culture: mid-twentieth century, still-Puritanical, Southern California. Match-strike moments, achingly painful, sometimes darkly humorous, plunge us into a young woman's cultural transgression and punishment. In Booth Memorial, Sullivan transcends era and location, to illuminate a timeless and placeless dilemma: how to say yes to life and dignity in the face of exile and unbearable loss. Long after turning the last page, we are left grateful and larger in spirit. —Maía, author of The SpiritLife of Birds, Adder's Tongue Press ____________________ Patti Sullivan is our guide into the lives of dispossessed girls behind closed doors at the Booth Memorial Home; through her words their elemental loss finds its way into language, both sorrowing and redemptive. Her voice is clear, courageous, and achingly honest—these are poems that open the heart. —Marsha de la O, author of Antidote for Night, BOA Editions ____________________ Patti Sullivan’s poems are arrows, swift and quiet, hitting their mark, sinking deep. Powerful and necessary, these poems make me say when reading, “This is what poetry is for!” In Patti’s passionate, honest voice, I hear generations of silent women who nod their heads, murmur agreement, urge her forward. Why didn’t we ever talk about the truth, she questions the silence imposed upon her as a young unwed mother, would we die or catch fire. —Mary Kay Rummel, Poet Laureate of Ventura County, CA, author of The Lifeline Trembles.
This captivating selection of 70 intimate black-and-white photographs conveys Patti Smith's singular experience as a photographer as it relates to many facets of her fascinating life and career.
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