Corbett Mack: The Life of a Northern Paiute (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780874179156)

Corbett Mack (1892-1974), was a Northern Paiute of mixed ancestry, caught between Native American and white worlds. A generation before, his tribe had brought forth the prophet Wovoka, whose Ghost Dance swept the Indian world in the 1890s. Mack's world was a harsh and bitter place after the last Native American uprisings had been brutally crushed; a life of servitude to white farmers and addiction to opium. Hittman uses Mack's own words to retell his story, an uncompromising account of a traumatized life that typified his generation, yet nonetheless made meaningful through the perseverance of Paiute cultural traditions.

Author: Michael Hittman
ISBN-10: 0874179157
ISBN-13: 9780874179156
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Language: English
Published: 09/15/2013
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.10d