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Twenty Thousand Mornings - An Autobiography (Paperback)
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Twenty Thousand Mornings - An Autobiography (Paperback)
Series: American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series
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When John Joseph Mathews (1894-1979) began his career as a writer
in the 1930s, he was one of only a small number of Native American
authors writing for a national audience. Today he is widely
recognized as a founder and shaper of twentieth-century Native
American literature. Twenty Thousand Mornings is Mathews's intimate
chronicle of his formative years. Written in 1965-67 but only
recently discovered, this work captures Osage life in pre-statehood
Oklahoma and recounts many remarkable events in
early-twentieth-century history. Born in Pawhuska, Osage Nation,
Mathews was the only surviving son of a mixed-blood Osage father
and a French-American mother. Within these pages he lovingly
depicts his close relationships with family members and friends.
Yet always drawn to solitude and the natural world, he wanders the
Osage Hills in search of tranquil swimming holes - and new
adventures. Overturning misguided critical attempts to confine
Mathews to either Indian or white identity, Twenty Thousand
Mornings shows him as a young man of his time. He goes to dances
and movies, attends the brand-new University of Oklahoma, and joins
the Air Service as a flight instructor during World War I -
spawning a lifelong fascination with aviation. His accounts of
wartime experiences include unforgettable descriptions of his first
solo flight and growing skill in night-flying. Eventually Mathews
gives up piloting to become a student again, this time at Oxford
University, where he begins to mature as an intellectual. In her
insightful introduction and explanatory notes, Susan Kalter places
Mathews's work in the context of his life and career as a novelist,
historian, naturalist, and scholar. Kalter draws on his unpublished
diaries, revealing aspects of his personal life that have
previously been misunderstood. In addressing the significance of
this posthumous work, she posits that Twenty Thousand Mornings will
challenge, defy, and perhaps redefine studies of American Indian
autobiography.
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