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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Devil in Deerskins: My Life with Grey Owl

Devil in Deerskins: My Life with Grey Owl

Anahareo
McCall, Sophie

Paperback

Series: First Voices, First Texts, Book 1

Biographies GeneralNative American HistoryWomen's Studies

Publisher Price: $27.95

ISBN10: 0887557651
ISBN13: 9780887557651
Publisher: Univ Of Manitoba
Published: Apr 4 2014
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Anahareo (1906-1985) was a Mohawk writer, environmentalist, and activist. She was also the wife of Grey Owl, aka Archie Belaney, the internationally celebrated writer and speaker who claimed to be of Scottish and Apache descent, but whose true ancestry as a white Englishman only became known after his death. Devil in Deerskins is Anahareo's autobiography up to and including her marriage to Grey Owl. In vivid prose she captures their extensive travels through the bush and their work towards environmental and wildlife protection. Here we see the daily life of an extraordinary Mohawk woman whose independence, intellect and moral conviction had direct influence on Grey Owl's conversion from trapper to conservationist. Though first published in 1972, Devil in Deerskins's observations on indigeneity, culture, and land speak directly to contemporary audiences. Devil in Deerskins is the first book in the First Voices, First Texts series. This new edition includes forewords by Anahareo's daughters, Katherine Swartile and Anne Gaskell, an afterword by Sophie McCall, and reintroduces readers to a very important but largely forgotten text by one of Canada's most talented Indigenous writers.

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