JAMES WELCH: HEARTSONG OF CHARGING ELK/NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS/NOVEL/1st SIGNED

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JAMES WELCH: HEARTSONG OF CHARGING ELK/NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS/NOVEL/1st SIGNED THE HEARTSONG OF CHARGING ELK. A NOVEL. BY JAMES WELCH. New York: Doubleday, 2000. Signed. First Edition. Scarce. A nice copy of this scarce and interesting book. Such a nice copy is not likely to come up for sale again soon on ebay. From the Dust Jacket: "Inspired by actual historical fact, James Welch's The Heartsong of Charging Elk tells the story of an Oglala Sioux who travels the extraordinary geographical and cultural distance from tribal life in the Black Hills ofSouth DAkota to existence on the streets of Marseille. AS a young boy, Charging Elk witnessed his people's massacre of Custer's Seventh Cavalry at Little Big Horn, followed by years of futile fighting and wandering untilt he Sioux were finally lured to the Pine Ridge reservation. But he prefers life in the Stronghold living by his wits and skills in the old way. Ironically, it is Charging Elk's horesmanship and independent air tht cause Buffalo Bill to recuirt him fo rhis Wild West Show, which travels across "the big water" to create a sensation in the capitals of Europe. Charging Elk and his Sioux companions are living a life touched by fame and marked by previously unthinkable experiences--until he falls ill in Marseille and, through a bureaucratic mix-up, is left behind in a hospital while the show travels on. Scared, disoriented, Charging Elk escapes--only to fall into a series of events, including a love affair with a prostitute and a shocking murder, that will change his life utterly beyond his imagination. James Welch, one of our truly great Native American writers, has taken a fascinating premise and realized it with utter mastery. Reminiscent of Fools Crow, his classic novel of Indian life. The Heartsong of Charging Elk is a haunting epic of culture shock and colliding ways of life and though sure to be hailed by reviewers and readers alike." According to Wikipedia: "James Welch (November 18, 1940–August 4, 2003), was an award-winning U.S. author and poet.[1] Welch is considered a founding author of the Native American Renaissance. His novel Fools Crow received several National Literary awards. Welch received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas in 1997.[2] James Welch was born in Browning, Montana on November 18, 1940. His father was a member of the Blackfeet tribe and his mother a member of the Gros Ventre tribe; both also had Irish ancestry.[1] As a child, Welch attended schools on the Blackfoot and Fort Belknap reservations. Welch attended the University of Montana, where he studied under the author Richard Hugo and began his writing career.[3] Welch was at the University of Montana when his writing career began in earnest, leading to the creation of works that would establish his place in the Native American Renaissance literary movement.[4] Welch taught at the University of Washington and at Cornell, as well as serving on the Parole Board of the Montana Prisons Systems and on the Board of Directors of the Newberry Library D'Arcy McNickle Center.[5][6] Welch and Paul Stekler co-wrote the Emmy Award-winning American Experience documentary, Last Stand at Little Bighorn, shown on PBS.[7] Together they also wrote the history Killing Custer: The Battle of Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians (1994). When Winter in the Blood was reprinted in 2007, it included an introduction by Louise Erdrich, who wrote: It "is a central and inspiring text to a generation of western regional and Native American writers, including me." Welch died at his home in Missoula, Montana in 2003.[8]" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Large Octavo - sized hardcover book with dust jacket; 440 pages of text. Near Fine condition: no torn or missing pages; no writing or markings in the text; no foxing or browning to paper; untrimmed page edges; Signed & Inscribed by author on half-title & title page. Original hardcover binding, with almost no wear.... read more

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