Waiting for Wovoka : Envoys of Good Cheer and Liberty
Waiting for Wovoka : Envoys of Good Cheer and Liberty
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Author(s): Vizenor, Gerald
ISBN No.: 9780819500434
Pages: 120
Year: 202303
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 23.73
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

Book IV of the Native Liberty Series (Native puppeteers from the White Earth Reservation travel to the 1962 World's Fair) In the summer of 1962, a group of young Native American puppeteers travel in a converted school bus from the White Earth Reservation to the Century 21 Exposition, World's Fair in Seattle, Washington. The five Natives, three young men and two young women, have endured abandonment, abuse, poverty, and find solace, humor, and courage with a mute puppeteer--a Native woman in her seventies who writes original dream songs, and creates hand puppets and ironic parleys that mock the ghosts of authority. Dummy Trout, the mute puppeteer, also figured in Native Tributes and Satie on the Seine . The troupe attends a performance of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett and they create a puppet parley for Wovoka, the inspiration of the Native American Ghost Dance Religion.


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