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Check for Availabilityout of stock. Click on the button below to search for this title in other formats.  Faces of a Reservation: A Portrait of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation
Awards1988 Winner of the Oregon Institue of Literary Arts' Frances Fuller Victor Award for Creative Non-Fiction.
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Through her words and photographs, Cyntia D. Stowell shares her experience of the people and the land of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, located in central Oregon. A seven-year resident of the reservation, Ms. Stowell worked as a reporter of the reservation newspaper, Spilyay Tymoo (Coyote News), covering the public and administrative workings of the Confederated Tribes. After three-and-a-half years with the newspaper she describes her desire to meet the community in a new way:
Taking on just enough free-lance work to make ends meet, I began to spend more time in people's homes, just sitting and visiting. I joined in private religious ceremonies, stopped in at taverns, and followed people to work. And I listened. I listened to hopes and frustrations, diatribes and meanderings, voices of the ambitious and productive, of the lonely and confused. The voices confirmed what I had begun to believe — that there is no single truth about the Warm Springs Reservation. There is a collective identity based on ethnicity, history, and cultural tradition, a unified otherness built on adversity....But beneath the surface, there are as many faces to the Warm Springs as there are tribal memebers. And there are as many ways to experience Warm Springs as there are visitors to it, depending on where they come from, why they are there, and who they know. At last I had a direction for the book that I had been dreaming about. I would profile individuals whose thoughts and lives together shape the commiunity I had come to know. Ms. Stowell details the cultural and anthropological differences between the separate yet eventually intertwining Paiute, Wasco, and Warm Springs (Sahaptin) tribes. The photographs in "The Faces" section introduce the community while "The Reservation" section gives the reader a context for that community. Her prose moves thorugh old wounds and new hopes, illuminating the strains of holding to the values of the past while looking toward the future. Faces of a Reserveration goes into territory that is at once alien and native, presenting a facet of Oregon and the United States that is as familiar as it is foreign. In the author's words, "This book is my gift to the people of Warm Springs. And it is their gift to me." Book News Annotation:An attractive and perceptive photographic and historical view of the
Warm Springs Indian Reservation in central Oregon. 11x11"
Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Review:"Stowell has honored those wonderful people by stripping away all the available stereotypes and telling their story honestly and graphically....every page of Faces of a Reservation represents a victory won over ethnocentric bias and ignorance." Jarold Ramsey, author of Coyote Was Going There Synopsis:This photographic history features 52 portraits and details the differences between the Wasco, Warm Springs, and Paiute Peoples at Warm Springs.
Table of ContentsFOREWORD - xi ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS - xiii A NOTE FROM THE FIFTY-THRID FACE - xv INTRODUCTION - xix THE FACES - 1 Ellen Squiemphen, 2 Ken Smith, 4 Ellen Heath, 6 Amos Simtustus, 8 Mary Hote, 10 Celeste Whiteworlf, 12 Lillie Heath, 14 Maxine Clements, 16 Grant Waheneka, 18 Robert Macy, Sr., 20 Frank Charley, 22 Isabelle Keo, 24 Irene Towe, 26 Jacob Frank, Sr., 28 Peter Reed, 30 Viola Kalama, 32 Alice Florendo, 34 Maggie Wewa, 36 Maxine Switzler, 38 Susana Santos, 40 James "Buckwheat" Scott, 42 Felix Walulatum, 44 Eva Bates, 46 Prosanna "Prunie" Williams, 48 Matilda Mitchell, 50 Andrew David, 52 Clarence McKinley, 54 Noval Tufti, 56 Nathan "Eightball" Jim, 58 Masami Danzuka, 60 Sonny Jackson, 62 Lloyd Smith, Sr., 64 Trudee Clements, 66 Packy Heath, 68 Lucinda Smith, 70 Steven and Tony Tias, Ruthy Anderson, 72 Bernice Mitchell & family, 74 Annie Smith, 76 C. R. Squiemphen, 78 Wilson "Jazzie" Wewa, 80 Ken "Kenman" Miller, 82 Sammy Danzuka, 84 Woodrow "Woody" Smith, 86 Ted Brunoe, 88 George & Janice Clements, 90 Marella & Elsie Sam, 92 Susan "Kussa" Moses, 94 Kerland Suppah, Ally Whiz & Ambrosia, 96 Zane Jackson, 98, Jim Manion, 100 Olney Patt, Sr., 102 Lizzie Pitt & Elizabeth Woody, 104 THE RESERVATION - 107 Two Crises Survived, 108 Ancient Poeple in a New Land, 111 Before Boomtown and Beyond, 132 A Compromised Sovereignty, 150 Cutural Journey, 163 BIBLIOGRAPHY - 190 INDEX - 193 What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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