{"product_id":"from-sand-creek-volume-42","title":"From Sand Creek: Volume 42","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eFrom Sand Creek: Volume 42\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eSimon J Ortiz\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780816519934\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eUniversity of Arizona Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2000\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003e58118th\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003e Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho women and children\u003c\/b\u003e by U.S. soldiers at Sand Creek in 1864 was a shameful episode in American history, and its battlefield was proposed as a National Historic Site in 1998 to pay homage to those innocent victims. Poet Simon Ortiz had honored those people seventeen years earlier in his own way. That book, \u003ci\u003efrom Sand Creek\u003c\/i\u003e, is now back in print. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Originally published in a small-press edition, \u003ci\u003efrom Sand Creek\u003c\/i\u003e makes a large statement about injustices done to Native peoples in the name of Manifest Destiny. It also makes poignant reference to the spread of that ambition in other parts of the world--notably in Vietnam--as Ortiz asks himself what it is to be an American, a U.S. citizen, and an Indian. Indian people have often felt they have had no part in history, Ortiz observes, and through his work he shows how they can come to terms with this feeling. He invites Indian people to examine the process they have experienced as victims, subjects, and expendable resources--and asks people of European heritage to consider the motives that drive their own history and create their own form of victimization. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Through the pages of this sobering work, Ortiz offers a new perspective on history and on America. Perhaps more important, he offers a breath of hope that our peoples might learn from each other: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThis America \u003cbr\u003e has been a burden \u003cbr\u003e of steel and mad \u003cbr\u003e death, \u003cbr\u003e but, look now, \u003cbr\u003e there are flowers \u003cbr\u003e and new grass \u003cbr\u003e and a spring wind \u003cbr\u003e rising \u003cbr\u003e from Sand Creek.\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"University of Arizona Press","offers":[{"title":"From Sand Creek: Volume 42 | Simon J Ortiz | Paperback | 9780816519934 | Used: Like New | Poetry 1498840","offer_id":50566981320962,"sku":"1498840","price":16.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/31Lsq6aSHLL.jpg?v=1790806141","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/from-sand-creek-volume-42","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}