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Molly Spotted Elk - A Penobscot in Paris (Paperback, New Ed)
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Molly Spotted Elk - A Penobscot in Paris (Paperback, New Ed)
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Molly Spotted Elk: A Penobscot in Paris chronicles the
extraordinary life of a twentieth-century American Indian
performing artist. Born in 1903 on the Penobscot reservation in
Maine, Molly ventured into show business at an early age -
performing vaudeville in New York, starring in the classic
docudrama The Silent Enemy, then dancing for royalty and mingling
with the literary elite in Europe. In Paris, Molly found an
audience more appreciative of authentic Native dance than in the
United States. There Molly married a French journalist, but she was
forced to leave him and flee France with her daughter during the
1940 German occupation. Drawing extensively on diaries, letters,
interviews, and other sources, Bunny McBride reconstructs Molly
Spotted Elk's story and sheds new light on the pressures Molly and
her peers endured in acting out white stereotypes of the
""Indian.""
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