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Woody Kipp - Viet Cong at Wounded Knee: The Trail of a Blackfeet Activist - 9780803216419 - V9780803216419
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Viet Cong at Wounded Knee: The Trail of a Blackfeet Activist

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Description for Viet Cong at Wounded Knee: The Trail of a Blackfeet Activist Paperback. It was at Wounded Knee, that Vietnam vet Woody Kipp realized that he, as an American Indian, had become the enemy, the Viet Cong, to a country that he had defended with his life. This memoir tells the story of the long trail that led Kipp from the Blackfeet Reservation of his birth to a terrible moment of reckoning on the plains of South Dakota. Series: American Indian Lives. Num Pages: 176 pages, 7 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGA; HBJK; HBLW3; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5334 x 3633 x 10. Weight in Grams: 205.
It was at Wounded Knee, huddled under a night sky lit by military flares and the searchlights of armored personnel carriers, that Vietnam vet Woody Kipp realized that he, as an American Indian, had become the enemy, the Viet Cong, to a country that he had defended at the risk of his life. With candor, bitter humor, and biting insight, this book tells the story of the long and tortuous trail that led Kipp from the Blackfeet Reservation of his birth to a terrible moment of reckoning on the plains of South Dakota. Kipp’s is a story of Native values ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Series
American Indian Lives
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Nebraska, United States
ISBN
9780803216419
SKU
V9780803216419
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About Woody Kipp
Woody Kipp is an English instructor at Blackfeet Community College on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana.

Reviews for Viet Cong at Wounded Knee: The Trail of a Blackfeet Activist
“An unyielding, unflattering, and sharp-witted (at times absolutely hilarious and entertaining) self-portrait. But it is more—much more—than simply autobiography. Viet Cong at Wounded Knee is an insightful, brutally forthright masculine-centered effort to identify white privilege and racial oppression of non-whites in the lingering residue of conquest and colonization.”—American Indian Quarterly “Kipp's brutally honest story is a thought-provoking chronicle of an ... Read more

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