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Author(s):	W. S. Penn

Date:	2024	Format:	epub	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	0814349307
Pages:	232	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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Offered in the oral traditions of the Nez Perce, Native American writer W. S. Penn records the conversations he held with his granddaughter, lovingly referred to as "Bean," as he guided her toward adulthood while confronting society's interest in possessions, fairness, and status. Drawing on his own family history and Native mythology, Penn charts a way through life where each endeavor is a journeyan opportunity to love, to learn, or to interactrather than the means to a prize at the end.

Divided into five parts, Penn addresses topics such as the power of words, race and identity, school, and how to be. In the essay "In the Nick of Names," Penn takes an amused look at the words we use for people and how their power, real or imagined, can alter our perception of an entire group. "To Have and On Hold" is an essay about wanting to assimilate into a group but at the risk of losing a good bit of yourself. "A Harvest Moon" is a humorous anecdote about a Native grandfather visiting his granddaughter's classroom and the absurdities of being a professional Indian. "Not Nobody" uses "Be All that You Can Be Week" at Bean's school to reveal the lessons and advantages of being a "nobody." In "From Paper to Person," Penn imagines the joy that may come to Bean when she spends time with her Paper Peoplethree-foot-tall drawings, mounted on stiff cardboardand as she grows into a young woman like her mom, able to say she is a person who is happy with what she has and not sorry for what she doesn't.

Comical and engaging, the essays in
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