Spirit car : journey to a Dakota past
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Published
St. Paul, MN : Borealis Books, ©2006.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
xii, 218 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Status
Greenfield Branch - Adult Non-Fiction
978.0049 W
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978.0049 W
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Published
St. Paul, MN : Borealis Books, ©2006.
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-216).
Description
Growing up in the 1950s in suburban Minneapolis, Diane Wilson had a family like everybody else's. Her Swedish American father was a salesman at Sears and her mother drove her brothers to baseball practice and went to parent-teacher conferences. But in her thirties, Diane began to wonder why her mother didn't speak of her past. So she traveled to South Dakota and Nebraska, searching out records of her relatives through six generations, hungering to know their stories. She began to write a haunting account of the lives of her Dakota Indian family, based on research, to recreate their oral history that was lost, or repressed, or simply set aside as gritty issues of survival demanded attention. The result is an exquisite counterpoint of memoir and carefully researched fiction, a remarkable narrative that ties modern Minnesotans to the trauma of the Dakota War. Wilson found her family's love and humor -- and she discovered just how deeply our identities are shaped by the forces of history.
Awards
Minnesota Book Awards.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Wilson, D. (2006). Spirit car: journey to a Dakota past . Borealis Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Wilson, Diane, 1954-. 2006. Spirit Car: Journey to a Dakota Past. Borealis Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Wilson, Diane, 1954-. Spirit Car: Journey to a Dakota Past Borealis Books, 2006.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Wilson, Diane. Spirit Car: Journey to a Dakota Past Borealis Books, 2006.
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