When Nickels Were Indians: An Urban, Mixed-Blood Story

by Patricia Penn Hilden and HILDEN PATRICIA PENN

Book Overview

Born in Los Angeles, a blue-eyed descendant of the Nez Perce band once led by Chief Joseph, Patricia Penn Hilden never looked the part - but she knew its contours. Escorted by her mother to the local... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560986018
• ISBN13: 9781560986010
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
• Length: 259 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

A rich, beautifully written book

Hilden's memoir of growing up mixedblood in LA is a fascinating study of personal experience, images of Indian people in dominant white culture (the stuff on actor Jay Silverheels [Tonto] is especially compelling),AIM, and Native studies (and Native people) in the academy. Hilden's narrative is engaging, even riveting at times. This book is sad and funny. It reads like a good novel.

wonderful

An astonishingly brave and courageous memoir that left me in an amazement of admiration. Patricia Hilden is certainly the most brilliant Native American theorist in the world today. As a white woman, I am simply in awe that such incredibly insightful work is being accomplished in spite of eurocentric campuses and conservative white males. This is a truly great book.