Viola Martinez, California Paiute: Living in Two Worlds

by Diana Meyers Bahr

Book Overview

The life story of Viola Martinez, an Owens Valley Paiute Indian of eastern California, extends over nine decades of the twentieth century. Viola experienced forced assimilation in an Indian boarding school, overcame racial stereotypes to pursue a college degree, and spent several years working at a Japanese American internment camp during World War II. Finding herself poised uncertainly between Indian and white worlds, Viola was determined to turn...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080614159X
• ISBN13: 9780806141596
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"