By Woody Kipp
ISBN: 0803227604
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
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It was at Wounded Knee, huddled under a night sky lit by military flares and the search-lights of armored carriers seeking him out, 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. 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 crossed with 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 Vietnam as a Marine, to his troubled return, from his hell-raising as a violent, womanizing, hard-drinking horse breaker, to his consciousness-raising as a college student and foot soldier in the American Indian Movement, Kipp's memoir offers a unique, first-hand 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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