Not Far Away The Real-life Adventures of Ima Pipiig
by Beard, SteveFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-09-21
Publisher(s): AltaMira Press
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Summary
Part novel amd part memoire, Not Far Away recounts the life of a female Ojibwe schoolteacher in northern Michigan as she endures the most caustic forms of racism.
Author Biography
Lois Beardslee is an instructor in communications at Northwestern Michigan College
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Real-life Adventures of Ima Pipiig | p. 5 |
| Kool-Aid | p. 11 |
| Solstice | p. 15 |
| Indian Boarding School | p. 23 |
| Not Far Away | p. 25 |
| Falcon Clan Meets Indian Boarding School | p. 43 |
| Venn Diagrams (We Are a Subset of America...) | p. 47 |
| Educating Ima | p. 53 |
| Before I Offend Most of You, I Would Like to Thank You for Coming | p. 67 |
| Turtle TV | p. 75 |
| Public Education as a Form of Media | p. 81 |
| Racism 101 | p. 85 |
| The Lecture They Want to Hear | p. 97 |
| Sweetgrass | p. 105 |
| The Play | p. 111 |
| Creation Stories | p. 121 |
| No, Wait-I Know a Part That Comes before the Beginning | p. 125 |
| The Lore of the Turtle | p. 133 |
| Book Reviews | p. 137 |
| The Lars Nederstadt Holocaust Museum | p. 139 |
| Men in Brown | p. 143 |
| Why Ima Pipiig Did Not Vote | p. 145 |
| Jim Crow-Culture of Convenience | p. 159 |
| The Chair | p. 171 |
| F-ed by the V-Monologues | p. 177 |
| The Throw-away People | p. 187 |
| Laughing Man | p. 195 |
| I Wanna Be a Delicacy | p. 201 |
| Dead Horses, and How to Beat Them | p. 215 |
| Toxins | p. 219 |
| Gambling for Dollars | p. 227 |
| Big Waldeau and Pork Patty | p. 237 |
| Shiigawk | p. 247 |
| On Warriors, Living and Dead (In Respectful Memory of Charles J. Meyers) | p. 257 |
| The Shirt | p. 261 |
| We Did Not Come Over Here on the Mayflower | p. 265 |
| The Ladies Sat There Patiently | p. 269 |
| About the Author | p. 275 |
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