Reservation blues
The rise and fall of .Coyote Springs, an all-Indian Catholic rock band from the Spokane Reservation in eastern Washington, tracing its journey from the Spokane Reservation all the way to New York. Having met Robert Johnson, an American blues musician who sold his soul to the devil; 3 Spokane men start a band. Lead singer Thomas Builds-the-Fire, lJunior Polatkin and lead guitarist Victor Joseph using Johnson's enchanted guitar, and backup vocalists Chess and Checkers Warm Water from the Flathead Indian Resservation in Montana. They are reservation Indians, but they are also kids with guitars committed to putting on their own show. The stuff of their lives, the pain, the poverty, the humour, the resilience, grows out of their experience on the reservation, but also fuels their need to be heard in their own voices. A humorous exploration of serious subjects: the effect of Christianity on Indigenous peoples, cultural assimilation and its impact on relations between Indigenous men and women.
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- ISBN: 0802141900
- ISBN: 9780802141903
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Physical Description
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306 pages ; 24 cm - Edition First edition.
- Publisher New York : Grove Press, [1995]
- Copyright ©1995
Content descriptions
General Note: | NFPL Indigenous Collection. |
Target Audience Note: | HL670L Lexile |