Birding while Indian : a mixed-blood memoir / Thomas C. Gannon.

"Catalogs a lifetime of bird sightings to explore the part-Lakota author's search for identity and his reckoning with colonialism's violence against Indigenous humans, animals, and land."-- "Thomas C. Gannon's Birding While Indian spans more than fifty years of childhood walks and adult road trips t...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Machete.
Main Author:	Gannon, Thomas C. (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Columbus : Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press, [2023]
Series:	Machete.
Subjects:	Gannon, Thomas C. Lakota people > Great Plains > Biography. Indigenous peoples of North America > Mixed descent > Great Plains > Biography. Racially mixed people > Great Plains > Biography. Bird watching > Great Plains. Bird watchers > Great Plains > Biography. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / Indigenous. NATURE / Essays. Bird watchers. Bird watching. Indians of North America > Mixed descent. Lakota Indians. Racially mixed people. Great Plains. Biographies. Autobiographies.
Genre:	Biography. Biographies. Autobiographies.
Physical Description:	xiv, 239 pages : black and white illustrations ; 22 cm.
Format:	Book

Contents:

March 1965, Piss Hill: Great Horned Owl
July 1967, Piss Hill: Lewis's Woodpecker
January 1968, Rapid Creek: Common Goldeneye
June 1969, I-90: Western Meadowlark
April 1970, Fort Pierre / Missouri River: Sandhill Crane
June 1970, a Fort Pierre Slough: Wood Duck
August 1971, Saskatchewan: Western Grebe
May 1977, a Rapid City Marsh: Red-Winged Blackbird
June 1978, Spearfish Canyon: American Dipper
June 1979, a Pennington County Dirt Road: Common Nighthawk
August 1981, Old Faithful: Common Raven
June 1983, a Pennington County Dirt Road: Long-Billed Curlew
June 1985, Skyline Drive: Field Sparrow
June 1985, Fort Morgan, CO: House Finch
September 1987, Northern Black Hills: Mourning Dove
December 1987, Belle Fourche, SD: [Species Unknown]
January 1989, Rapid City, SD: European Starling
January 1991, Gavins Point Dam: Long-Tailed Duck
April 2001, U of Iowa English-Philosophy Building: Common Grackle
February 2003, Kirk Funeral Home: Prairie Falcon
April 2003, U of Iowa English-Philosophy Building: Northern Cardinal
May 2003, Clay County Park: Bald Eagle
June 2004, Ardmore, OK: Northern Mockingbird
June 2005, Folsom Children's Zoo: White Stork
June 2006, Crazy Horse Memorial: Turkey Vulture
July 2008, Kountze Lake: Snowy Egret
August 2008, Fontenelle Forest: House Wren
May 2009, the Lake beside Lakeside, NE: Black-Necked Stilt
May 2009, Devils Tower: American Goldfinch
May 2009, Little Bighorn Battlefield: Eurasian Collared-Dove
May 2009, Bowdoin National Wildlife Refuge: Marbled Godwit
July 2009, Pioneers Park: Brown-Headed Cowbird
June 2010, Idyllwild, CA: Steller's Jay
June 2010, Spirit Mound: Dickcissel
May 2011, Wilderness Park: Veery
December 2011, Highway 385: Ferruginous Hawk
May 2012, Indian Cave State Park: Chuck-Will's-Widow
June 2012, Custer State Park: Canyon Wren
June 2012, Millwood State Park: Black-Bellied Whistling-Duck
July 2012, Newton Hills State Park: Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker
July 2012, Morrison Park: Lesser Goldfinch
May 2013, Pawnee Lake State Recreation Area: Bonaparte's Gull
May 2014, El Segundo Beach: Brown Pelican
March 2015, Pawnee Lake State Recreation Area: American Robin
July 2016, Medicine Bow National Forest-Vedauwoo: Dusky Flycatcher
November 2017, Lewis and Clark Lake: Snowy Owl
March 2018, West Platte River Drive: Whooping Crane
May 2018, Little Bighorn Battlefield: Red-Tailed Hawk
Coda: Birding While Indian.