Muscogee Daughter : My Sojourn to the Miss America Pageant

English

Series: American Indian Lives Ser.

ISBN: 0803229712

EAN: 9780803229716

Category: Biography & Autobiography / Women/Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies/Social Science / Popular Culture/Biography & Autobiography / General/History / Native American/

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

Release Date: 10/31/2010

Synopsis: How American is Miss America? For Susan Supernaw, a Muscogee-Creek and Munsee Native American, the question wasnt just academic. Throughout a childhood clouded by poverty, alcoholism, and abuse, Supernaw sought escape in school and dance and the Native American Church. She became a presidential scholar, won a scholarship to college, and was crowned Miss Oklahoma in 1971. Supernaw might not have won the Miss America pageant that year, but she did call attention to the Native peoples living largely invisible lives throughout their own American land. And she did at long last earn her Native American name. Chronicling a quest to escape poverty and find meaning, Supernaws story is revealing, humorous, and deeply moving.Muscogee Daughteris the story of finding a Native American identity among the distractions and difficulties of American life and of discerning an identity among competing notions of what it is to be a woman, a Native American, and a citizen of the world.

Muscogee Daughter : My Sojourn to the Miss America Pageant

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Hardcover

Height: 0.9 inches

Width: 5.5 inches

Length: 8.5 inches

Weight: 16.23 oz

Pages: 264