Whiskey tender : a memoir
(Book)
Published
New York, NY : Harper, [2024].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Red Feather Lakes Community Library - NONFICTION
978.9 TAFFA 2024
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978.9 TAFFA 2024
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Ridgway Public Library - NEW
978.9 TAF
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978.9 TAF
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Spanish Peaks Library District - BIOGRAPHY
BIO TAFFA
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BIO TAFFA
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Location | Call Number | Status | Due Date |
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Dolores Public Library - NEW NONFICTION | BIO TAFFA | Checked Out | July 8, 2024 |
Mancos Library District - NONFICTION | 978.982 TAF | Checked Out | July 5, 2024 |
Park County Public Libraries - Guffey Branch (C338) - NONFICTION | 978.9 TAF | In Transit | |
Red Feather Lakes Community Library - NONFICTION | 978.9 TAFFA 2024 | On Shelf | |
Rico Public Library - NONFICTION | 978.9 TAF | In Transit |
Subjects
LC Subjects
Autobiographies.
Farmington (N.M.) -- Biography.
Fort Yuma Reservation (Ariz. and Calif.) -- Biography.
Indians of North America -- Biography.
Pueblo Indians -- Fort Yuma Reservation (Ariz. and Calif.) -- Biography.
Pueblo Indians -- New Mexico -- Farmington -- Biography.
Taffa, Deborah Jackson, -- 1969- -- Childhood and youth.
Yuma Indians -- Fort Yuma Reservation (Ariz. and Calif.) -- Biography.
Yuma Indians -- New Mexico -- Farmington -- Biography.
Farmington (N.M.) -- Biography.
Fort Yuma Reservation (Ariz. and Calif.) -- Biography.
Indians of North America -- Biography.
Pueblo Indians -- Fort Yuma Reservation (Ariz. and Calif.) -- Biography.
Pueblo Indians -- New Mexico -- Farmington -- Biography.
Taffa, Deborah Jackson, -- 1969- -- Childhood and youth.
Yuma Indians -- Fort Yuma Reservation (Ariz. and Calif.) -- Biography.
Yuma Indians -- New Mexico -- Farmington -- Biography.
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Published
New York, NY : Harper, [2024].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Notes
Description
Deborah Jackson Taffa was raised to believe that some sacrifices were necessary to achieve a better life. Her grandparents—citizens of the Quechan Nation and Laguna Pueblo tribe—were sent to Indian boarding schools run by white missionaries, while her parents were encouraged to take part in governmental job training off the reservation. Assimilation meant relocation, but as Taffa matured into adulthood, she began to question the promise handed down by her elders and by American that if she gave up her culture, her land, and her traditions, she would not only be accepted, but would be able to achieve the “American Dream.” Whiskey Tender traces how a mixed tribe native girl—born on the California Yuma reservation and raised in Navajo territory in New Mexico—comes to her own interpretation of identity, despite her parent’s desires for her to transcend the class and “Indian” status of her birth through education, and despite the Quechan tribe’s particular traditions and beliefs regarding oral and recorded histories. Taffa’s childhood memories unspool into meditations on tribal identity, the rampant criminalization of Native men, governmental assimilation policies, the Red Power movement, and the negotiation between belonging and resisting systemic oppression. Pan-Indian, as well as specific tribal histories and myths, blend with stories of a 1970s and 1980s childhood spent on and off the reservation. Taffa offers a sharp and thought-provoking historical analysis laced with humor and heart. As she reflects on her past and present—the promise of assimilation and the many betrayals her family has suffered, both personal and historical; trauma passed down through generations—she reminds us of how the cultural narratives of her ancestors have been excluded from the central mythologies and structures of the “melting pot” of America, revealing all that is sacrificed for the promise of acceptance.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Taffa, D. J. (2024). Whiskey tender: a memoir (First edition.). Harper.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Taffa, Deborah Jackson, 1969-. 2024. Whiskey Tender: A Memoir. Harper.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Taffa, Deborah Jackson, 1969-. Whiskey Tender: A Memoir Harper, 2024.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Taffa, Deborah Jackson. Whiskey Tender: A Memoir First edition., Harper, 2024.
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