Birding While Indian: A Mixed-Blood Memoir Hidatsa Dakota/Santee

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Birding While Indian: A Mixed-Blood Memoir Hidatsa Dakota/Santee"A fascinating search for personal and cultural identity." Kirkus Thomas C. Gannon's Birding While Indian spans more than fifty years of childhood walks and adult road trips to deliver, via a compendium of birds recorded and revered, the author's life as a part Lakota inhabitant of the Great Plains. Great Horned Owl, Sandhill Crane, Dickcissel: such species form a kind of rosary, a corrective to the rosaries that evoke Gannon's traumatic time in an