Reservation Nation
Dave F. Cook, David Cook, . . Boaz, $22 (208pp) ISBN 978-1-893448-04-9
The Uwharrie of North Carolina came up against the controversial Indian termination policy of the 1950s and '60s, which sought to mainstream Native Americans. Warren Eubanks, whose Uwharrie name means “the Seed,” grew up under the care of his grandparents in the 1950s, and narrates troubled reservation life as an older man looking back at his childhood and Vietnam-era younger adulthood, witness to a besieged community that has had to figure out how to “continu[e] to be Indian.” Warren moves back and forth between different periods in the past, telling of conflict between the old ways, as followed by elders such as great Aunt Ida, who could read minds, and Grandmother, a weaver and singer, and the ruinous ways of the
Reviewed on: 09/24/2007
Genre: Fiction