No One Ever Asked Me: The World War II Memoirs of an Omaha Indian Soldier

by Hollis D. Stabler

Book Overview

As a young adolescent, Hollis Dorion Stabler underwent a Native ceremony in which he was given the new name Na-zhin-thia, Slow to Rise. It was a name that no white person asked to know during Hollis's tour of duty in Anzio, his unacknowledged difference as an Omaha Indian adding to the poignancy of his uneasy fellowship with foreign and American soldiers alike. Stabler's story--coming of age on the American plains, going to war, facing new estrangement...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803220839
• ISBN13: 9780803220836
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"