{"product_id":"scalping-columbus-and-other-damn-adam-fortunate-eagle-9780806144283","title":"Scalping Columbus and Other Damn Indian Stories: Truths, Half-Truths, and Outright Liesvolume 60","description":"\u003cp\u003eAdam Fortunate Eagle has been called many things: social activist, serious joke medicine, contrary warrior, national treasure, enemy of the state, living history. Characterizing his style as \"Fortunate Eagle meets Mark Twain, Indian style,\" the author relates the traditions, joys, and frustrations of his own Native American experience in tones ranging from \"gut-busting laughter to pissed-off anger.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeading the reader through time and space, Fortunate Eagle uses his own history--as a child in an Ojibwe community and later as a civil rights leader who, among other achievements, helped organize the takeovers of Alcatraz in 1964 and 1969--to recount the experience of modern Native peoples. The tradition of oral storytelling shines through his language and in his thoughtful and humorous juxtapositions. In the story for which the book is named, Fortunate Eagle journeys to Italy to \"discover\" the land and claim it in protest of Columbus Day. Wearing a traditional beaded buckskin outfit, complete with scalps hanging from his belt, he meets with the pope. Afterward, suffering from what he calls \"the Pope's Revenge,\" he is forced to spend two days in or near a bathroom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeginning with a foreword \"written\" by Sitting Bull, and traveling from moose encounters in Minnesota to the Spanish Steps in Rome, this book reminds readers of the wisdom of elders, the cross-cultural confusion of Native-white encounters, and some of the most difficult issues faced by contemporary Native peoples.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFalling somewhere between fact and fiction, the tales in \u003ci\u003eScalping Columbus and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e combine outrageous comedy with clever social commentary, managing both to entertain and to enlighten.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adam Fortunate Eagle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0806144289\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780806144283\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Oklahoma Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/21\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 220\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/27\/2014","brand":"Adam Fortunate Eagle","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43988275691775,"sku":"9780806144283","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a52a94f3-3976-40d5-8e00-5b2b6e949736.jpg?v=1683293612","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/scalping-columbus-and-other-damn-adam-fortunate-eagle-9780806144283","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}