附註:University of Nebraska Press in cooperation with the American Indian Studies Research Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-383) and index.
Note on orthography -- Birth and family (1892) -- Boyhood (1892-1905) -- Boarding school (1905-1920) -- Work and girls (1912-1923) -- Italians, potatoes, homemade wine (1923-1958) -- Chinese opium (1896-1931) -- Some real old-timers (1896-1940): One real old-timer's belief ; Wodzeewob, 1870 Ghost Dance prophet ; Jack Wilson (Wovoka), 1890 Ghost Dance prophet ; Jack Wilson's Booha ('power') ; Jack Wilson's dances ; Doctored by Jack Wilson ; The death of Jack Wilson ; Ben Lancaster (Chief Gray Horse), peyotist -- Retirement years (1954-1974): Some (more) real old-timers ; Tales of Booha ; More tales of supernatural power ; Natoon dweba ('Animal teaching stories') ; The Flood and other animal teachings ; Giants and waterbabies ; Wolf and coyote ; Disillusionment? -- Epilogue: Final visit (1973) with Corbett Mack: a conversation -- Appendix A: Local newspaper accounts of opiates in Smith and Mason Valleys, Nevada (1896-1931) -- Appendix B: Report of narcotic situation among the Indians of the Walker River jurisdiction (1931) -- Appendix C: Narcotics in Smith and Mason Valleys (1929).
摘要:"This is the compelling yet disturbing story of Corbett Mack (1892-1974), an opiate addict who was a member of the Nuumuu (Numa), or Northern Paiute. The Northern Paiute are best known as the people who produced Wovoka, the Ghost Dance prophet whose revitalistic teachings swept the Indian world in the 1890s. Mack is from the generation following the collapse of the Ghost Dance religion, a generation of Nomogweta or "half breeds" (also called "stolen children") - Paiute of mixed ancestry who were raised in an increasingly bicultural world and who fell into virtual peonage to white (often Italian) potato farmers." "Around the turn of the century, the use of opium became widespread among the Paiute, adopted from equally victimized Chinese laborers with whom they worked closely in the fields. The story of Corbett Mack is an uncompromising account of a harsh and sometimes traumatic life that was typical of an entire generation of Paiute. It was a life born out of the turmoil and humiliation of an Indian boarding school, troubled by opiate addiction, bound to constant labor in the fields, yet nonetheless made meaningful through the perseverance of Paiute cultural traditions."--Jacket.
