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Keeper of the Delaware Dolls
Keeper of the Delaware Dolls, Rich in images and gently told, <i>Keeper of the Delaware Dolls</i> is the story of a Delaware Indian woman, Lynette Perry, and the remarkable life she has led in rural Oklahoma throughout the twentieth century. As Perry reflects, hers is a life lived to, Keeper of the Delaware Dolls has a rating of 3 stars
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Keeper of the Delaware Dolls, Rich in images and gently told, Keeper of the Delaware Dolls is the story of a Delaware Indian woman, Lynette Perry, and the remarkable life she has led in rural Oklahoma throughout the twentieth century. As Perry reflects, hers is a life lived to, Keeper of the Delaware Dolls
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  • Keeper of the Delaware Dolls
  • Written by author Lynette Perry
  • Published by University of Nebraska Press, March 1999
  • Rich in images and gently told, Keeper of the Delaware Dolls is the story of a Delaware Indian woman, Lynette Perry, and the remarkable life she has led in rural Oklahoma throughout the twentieth century. As Perry reflects, hers is a life "lived to
  • The story of a Delaware Indian woman, Lynette Perry, and the life she has led in rural Oklahoma throughout the twentieth century. Kirkus Reviews A notable memoir of Native American life. Working with Chicago-based freelance writer Skolnick
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The story of a Delaware Indian woman, Lynette Perry, and the life she has led in rural Oklahoma throughout the twentieth century.

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A notable memoir of Native American life. Working with Chicago-based freelance writer Skolnick, Delaware Indian artist Perry tells of her 82 years in rural Oklahoma. Her way of storytelling is self-effacing, humorous, and instantly appealing: she opens by remarking, "I want to start off by saying that I'm not the kind of person who thinks my life is so important that it needs to be in a book," and then, throughout the narrative that follows, shows that she's in fact just the kind of person whose life deserves chronicling at book length—as distinct from, say, the usual political operative/movie celebrity/sports star memoirists whose works now clog the shelves. The past lives in the present, Perry insists as she recounts the events that have shaped her life. In her instance, it lives quite literally through the medium of the storyteller dolls that she carves, an art she learned from her grandmother. Those dolls, in ribbon dresses and buckskin, help preserve the folk memory of the Delaware people, removed long ago from the East Coast, and Perry is an acknowledged master of the art. This book extends that memory onto the page, preserving shared narratives of the Delaware alongside Perry's own reminiscences of family and friends. (Of her mother, she writes, for instance, "Mama was the daughter of a time and place that held Annie Oakley to be a model woman, and she could shoot a gun and ride a horse with the best of them.") Perry writes knowingly and without rancor of the forces that have worked to destroy the Delaware and other Indian nations' cultural traditions, "a wind," as she says, "that I don't think I have to name." With luck, young American Indians who read her story willseek to recover their own families' pasts so that they live comfortably in the present. General readers will find much of value in Perry's pages as well. (17 photos, map, not seen)

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