{"product_id":"scalping-columbus-and-other-damn-indian-stories-truths-half-truths-and-outright-liesvolume-60-9780806144283","title":"Scalping Columbus and Other Damn Indian Stories: Truths, Half-Truths, and Outright Liesvolume 60","description":"\u003cp\u003eAdam Fortunate Eagle has been called many things: social activist, serious joke medicine, contrary warrior, national treasure, enemy of the state, living history. Characterizing his style as \"Fortunate Eagle meets Mark Twain, Indian style,\" the author relates the traditions, joys, and frustrations of his own Native American experience in tones ranging from \"gut-busting laughter to pissed-off anger.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeading the reader through time and space, Fortunate Eagle uses his own history--as a child in an Ojibwe community and later as a civil rights leader who, among other achievements, helped organize the takeovers of Alcatraz in 1964 and 1969--to recount the experience of modern Native peoples. The tradition of oral storytelling shines through his language and in his thoughtful and humorous juxtapositions. In the story for which the book is named, Fortunate Eagle journeys to Italy to \"discover\" the land and claim it in protest of Columbus Day. Wearing a traditional beaded buckskin outfit, complete with scalps hanging from his belt, he meets with the pope. Afterward, suffering from what he calls \"the Pope's Revenge,\" he is forced to spend two days in or near a bathroom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeginning with a foreword \"written\" by Sitting Bull, and traveling from moose encounters in Minnesota to the Spanish Steps in Rome, this book reminds readers of the wisdom of elders, the cross-cultural confusion of Native-white encounters, and some of the most difficult issues faced by contemporary Native peoples.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFalling somewhere between fact and fiction, the tales in \u003ci\u003eScalping Columbus and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e combine outrageous comedy with clever social commentary, managing both to entertain and to enlighten.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFortunate Eagle, Adam:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eAdam Fortunate Eagle\u003c\/b\u003e is an Ojibwe artist, writer, and frequent guest lecturer. As an advocate for Native civil rights throughout his life, he was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the State University of New York, New Paltz. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eHeart of the Rock: The Indian Invasion of Alcatraz\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePipestone: My Life in an Indian Boarding School\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"University of Oklahoma Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50492091793682,"sku":"9780806144283","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8b40f32f-9d41-49d9-b548-76c82c65eb99.jpg?v=1730570895","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/scalping-columbus-and-other-damn-indian-stories-truths-half-truths-and-outright-liesvolume-60-9780806144283","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}