Skolnick Manny (22 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1997. North America, Native Americans. University of Nebraska Press. Very good cloth and dust jacket 148p. 5/23.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 4th Edition. Fourth Printing. Good+ tight condition with good+ dust jacket. Design by Charlotte Kay. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0.

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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 1997. Hard cover. Book Condition : Near fine, like new, appears little read. Book will be sent by UK postal service. Inventory #016260.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 3rd Edition. 3rd printing. Oblong. 175 pages. Profusely illustrated. Has the QVC bookplate front endpaper. Fine condition in very good dust jacket that has creasing top rear. (H6).

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. THIRD PRINTING. THOMAS KINKADE AFFIXED LABEL, COPY # 12406, SOME SCRATCHES TO THE REAR DJ PANEL. Signed by Author(s).

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The dreams of a courageous Apache girl illuminate the hidden world of an Indian orphanage in this unforgettable story. Over forty years ago, Sharon Skolnick (Okee-Chee) and her sisters were removed from their Apache parents and became wards of the state of Oklahoma. She and her nearest sister made their way together through the Oklahoma Indian child welfare system. Shuttled back and forth between foster homes and orphanages, they finally ended up at the Murrow Indian Orphanage in Muskogee, Oklahoma. Here, Skolnick tells the gripping and ultimately triumphal account of the year the sisters spent there.Murrow was a place of wonder and terror, friendship and loneliness, where resilient children forged shifting alliances and conspired together yet yearned in solitude for a home and family to call their own. Skolnick paints an absorbing portrait of the world of an Indian orphanage, a world both bright and dark, vividly rendered through a child's eyes but tempered by the perspective of the woman who survived the Indian child welfare system and became an Apache artist.…

Condition: New. An Apache woman s recollection of a year spent in the Murrow Indian Orphanage in Muskogee, Oklahoma.&Uumlber den AutorSharon Skolnick, a member of the Fort Sill Apache Tribe, is a gallery owner and artist in Chicago. Where Courage .

Condition: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | "When Sharon Skolnick, an Apache Indian, was shunted off to the Murrow Indian Orphanage in Oklahoma with her little sister in 1953, she writes, 'I was the toughest fighter, pound for pound, in the orphanage. I was silent and brooding and mean.'. She is now known as Okee-Chee and is a successful artist in Chicago.Skolnick's work adds to the growing list of Indian writers who tell their stories with great pride, and too much intelligence to sour their memories with bitterness". -- Christian Science Monitor."A vivid, wrenching memoir of a year in a child's life.Skolnick makes an admirable addition to the autobiographical literature of the American Indian experience of childhood in an institution". -- American Indian Quarterly."With the help of her husband, Skolnick remembers her time in this dismal world of orphans, with the element of racism thrown into augment the heartache. It's testament to the writing here that in recalling such obdurate condition, s she still manages to create a sweet memoir". -- Publishers Weekly."Told in short sketches, this book reflects universal experiences of childhood as well as details of institutional life.Well written and compelling". -- Library Journal.…

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Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 164 23:B&W 6 x 9 in or 229 x 152 mm Perfect Bound on White w/Gloss Lam.

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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. 1993 First Edition Hardcover As New/As New Lightpost Publishing; San Jose, CA, 1993, 1st edition, 1st printing, As new condition with an As New dust jacket, Thomas Kinkade, Art.