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Viet Cong at Wounded Knee: The Trail of a Blackfeet Activist

Viet Cong at Wounded Knee: The Trail of a Blackfeet Activist

Kipp, Woody

Paperback

Series: American Indian Lives

Biographies GeneralNative American History

Publisher Price: $14.95

ISBN10: 0803216416
ISBN13: 9780803216419
Publisher: Bison Books
Published: May 1 2008
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
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 and practices uneasily intersected by cowboy culture, teenage angst, and quintessentially American temptations and excesses. As a boy, Kipp was a passionate reader and basketball player, always ready to brawl and already struggling with discrimination and alcoholism in his teens. From his tour of duty in Vietnam as a Marine to his troubled return, from his hell-raising as a violent, womanizing, hard-drinking horse breaker to his consciousness-raising experiences as a college student and foot soldier in the American Indian Movement, Kipp's memoir offers a unique, firsthand view of the enduring power--and the vulnerability--of Blackfeet culture, of the difficulties inherent in cross-cultural understanding, and of the urgent necessity of overcoming these difficulties if the essential heritage of Native America is to survive.

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