Corbett Mack: The Life of a Northern Paiute (Studies in the Anthropology of North Ame)

By Michael Hittman

Book Overview

Corbett Mack (1892-1974), was a Northern Paiute of mixed ancestry, caught between Native American and white worlds. A generation before, his tribe had brought forth the prophet Wovoka, whose Ghost Dance swept the Indian world in the 1890s. Mack's world was a harsh and bitter place after the last Native American uprisings had been brutally crushed; a life of servitude to white farmers and addiction to opium. Hittman uses Mack's own words to retell his story, an uncompromising account of a traumatized life that typified his generation, yet nonetheless made meaningful through the perseverance of Paiute cultural traditions.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874179157
• ISBN13: 9780874179156
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: University of Nevada Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.9"