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The Middle Five - Indian Schoolboys of the Omaha Tribe (Paperback)
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The Middle Five - Indian Schoolboys of the Omaha Tribe (Paperback)
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List price R396
Loot Price R327
Discovery Miles 3 270
You Save R69 (17%)
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"The Middle Five," first published in 1900, is an account of
Francis La Flesche's life as a student in a Presbyterian mission
school in northeastern Nebraska about the time of the Civil War. It
is a simple, affecting tale of young Indian boys midway between two
cultures, reluctant to abandon the ways of their fathers, and
puzzled and uncomfortable in their new roles of "make-believe white
men." The ambition of the Indian parents for their children, the
struggle of the teachers to acquaint their charges with a new world
of learning, and especially the problems met by both parents and
teachers in controlling and directing schoolboy exuberance
contribute to the authen-ticity of this portrait of the "Universal
Boy," to whom La Flesche dedicated his book. Regarded by
anthropologists as a classic of Native American literature, it is
one of those rare books that are valued by the specialist as
authentic sources of information about Indian culture and yet can
be recommended wholeheartedly to the general reader, especially to
young people in high school and the upper grades, as a useful
corrective to the often distorted picture of Indian life seen in
movies, comics, and television.
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