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Book

We survived the night

Call Number

  • 970.00497 N784 (CEN, EAS, OSH, POW, WSQ)

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Edition

First hardcover edition.

Publication Information

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2025.

Physical Description

viii, 413 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm

Summary

"A stunning narrative from one of the most powerful young writers at work today and the director of the Academy Award-nominated documentary Sugarcane, We Survived the Night interweaves oral history with hard-hitting journalism and a deeply personal father-son journey into a searing portrait of Indigenous survival, love, and resurgence."--Dust jacket flap.

Notes

"A Borzoi book."

Contents

  • In the beginning The first day: Coyote and his son. Fate hunts the red man down
  • Indian names
  • Through the eyes of Little Crow
  • Custer died for your sins
  • The fourth world
  • Sky Woman
  • Crazy Horse medicine
  • Silent thunder
  • The second day: Coyote steals the salmon. General theories of Indian relativity
  • Lost colonists
  • Indian Acts
  • Exodus
  • Red Herring
  • The third day: Coyote comes back. The drifters
  • The father, the son, and Coyote's ghost
  • Hereditary chiefs
  • Indian in the cabinet
  • Ghost of the enemy
  • The sovereign
  • Esk'etology
  • The fourth day. In the end.

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