SHADOW WALKER: THE LAST MANITOU OJIBWA J Brown Bear & VanEppsTaylor Signed PB

Description: For more than 50 years, visitors to Colorado's Garden of the Gods enjoyed seeing Native American life portrayed by resident Manitou Indians, which included strong minded Ojibwa elders from Turtle Mountain, ND who had chosen off-reservation life. Joseph Brown Bear Taylor was nurtured in his Ojibwa grandfathers' lodge and subsequently trapped into peonage on an Arkansas plantation while evading reservation boarding school. At age 15, his courageous escape along the "Trail of Life" from Arkansas to Colorado liberated not only himself and his sister from the oppressive underbelly of the South's 1940's peonage system, but also three orphan boys similarly trapped. These perilous coming of age adventures shaped the subsequent life of a strong-minded, thoughtful adult participant-observer, reflecting on his life with wisdom and humor, from the vantage of old age. His word pictures of the early Manitou Springs tourist industry which prominently featured native Americans are unique and largely untold. So are his wry, humorous, sometimes painful, sometimes dangerous memories of life in the household of the trusted African American cotton plantation manager whose public world included hiring within the savage peonage labor pool system and whose covert work included liberating as many people as possible through escape on a modern underground railroad they called the "Trail of Life." This hidden history reflects an America familiar to those "of color" who lived it; experiences largely unknown and often unimaginable to those who did not. When you purchase this item, you are supporting the Friends of the Cascade Library. Of the proceeds, 100% goes to the Friends, a non-profit organization helping to provide books, AV materials, and programming for adults, teens, and children at our library. · The images are of the item you will receive. · Shipping is done 3 times a week (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday). Every package is carefully wrapped and has a tracking number. · Please feel free to ask us any questions about an item.

Price: 30 USD

Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan

End Time: 2024-11-12T19:30:46.000Z

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