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Molly Spotted Elk: A Penobscot in Paris Paperback - 1997
by Bunny McBride
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- Title Molly Spotted Elk: A Penobscot in Paris
- Author Bunny McBride
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Revised
- Condition New
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma, U.S.A.
- Date 1997-09-15
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # ria9780806129891_pod
- ISBN 9780806129891 / 0806129891
- Weight 0.98 lbs (0.44 kg)
- Dimensions 8.54 x 5.52 x 0.86 in (21.69 x 14.02 x 2.18 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: Native American
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Dancers - United States - Biography, Spotted Elk
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95006891
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Years before, she had hiked the steep forested slopes of the Pyrenees for pleasure, relishing the grand vistas and iced air that are the gifts of mountains.
From the rear cover
This book chronicles the extraordinary life of twentieth-century performing artist Molly Spotted Elk. Born in 1903 on the Penobscot reservation in Maine, Molly ventured into show business at an early age, following the example of many American Indians. Her success afforded her a vast range of experience - from performing vaudeville in New York and starring in the classic docu-drama The Silent Enemy to dancing for royalty and mingling with the literary elite in Europe. Independent and ambitious, Molly strove to succeed in the wider world without surrendering her heritage. Her determination led her to Paris, where she found an audience more appreciative of authentic Native dance than in the United States. There she fell into a passionate love affair with a French journalist who eventually persuaded Molly to marry him. The German occupation of France in 1940 forced Molly to leave her husband and, with their young daughter, flee the country on foot over the Pyrenees Mountains. What happens to this family, and then to Molly's career, turns her tale from triumph into tragedy. Molly Spotted Elk is important not only because of her life but also because she recorded it. Among her enduring achievements are her diaries - detailed and reflective records of her public and private experiences. These rare, personal documents of Native history shed light on the pressures she and her peers endured in having to act out white stereotypes of the "Indian".