The first work of fiction published in the MSU Press American Indian Studies series, Indian Summers concerns issues of identity for Native Americans. Set against the backdrop of a contemporary reservation that has had its own losses to the dominant culture - a third of its total land mass taken earlier in the century for a New York State water reservoir, its only religious structures Christian churches - Indian Summers introduces these identity conflicts through the lives and circumstances of its major characters. This is a ...
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The first work of fiction published in the MSU Press American Indian Studies series, Indian Summers concerns issues of identity for Native Americans. Set against the backdrop of a contemporary reservation that has had its own losses to the dominant culture - a third of its total land mass taken earlier in the century for a New York State water reservoir, its only religious structures Christian churches - Indian Summers introduces these identity conflicts through the lives and circumstances of its major characters. This is a time when belonging to a tribe is difficult, when dominant societal forces encourage either the acts of abandoning a perceived anachronistic lifestyle or of embracing one of a number of simplistic, prescribed, false identities: warrior, environmentalist, crystal-carrying shaman. None of these options is real for the individuals who populate these pockets of different - not alternative - societies. The people who live these lives do not explore alternatives, nor do they necessarily have the desire to - inextricably entwined as they are with their families, culture, history, and land.
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