Where the tall grass grows : becoming indigenous and the mythological legacy of the American West / Bobby Bridger.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bridger, Bobby
Language:English
Published: Golden, CO : Fulcrum Pub., [2011], ©2011.
Subjects:
Indigenous mythology > West (U.S.)
Indigenous peoples of North America > West (U.S.) > History.
Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.) > History.
Indigenous peoples in popular culture.
Indigenous peoples in literature.
Indigenous peoples in motion pictures.
Physical Description:[vii], 408 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Flaming Rainbow, the word sender
  • Across the wide Missouri
  • The road of the emigrants
  • The iron cyclops and the lightning slingers
  • A fierce artfulness
  • A star appears
  • The showman, the medicine man, and the messiah
  • The wizards and the western
  • The dream factory and a new Red scare
  • A WASP in the wilderness
  • The Indian "New Deal"
  • A clarion call for heroes
  • When Johnny comes marching home
  • The oracle of the hearth
  • The Searchers and the captivity narrative
  • Custer died for your sins
  • A librarian's notebook
  • The trail of broken treaties
  • Dances with Wolves and Avatar
  • Playing Indian.