Only approved Indians: stories

334 Pages·1995·0.67 MB·English

by  Jack D. Forbes

Only Approved Indians : Stories American
title: Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series
; V. 12
author: Forbes, Jack D.
publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
isbn10 | asin: 080612699X
print isbn13: 9780806126999
ebook isbn13: 9780585150048
language: English
subject Indians of North America--Fiction.
publication date: 1995
lcc: PS3556.O667O55 1995eb
ddc: 813/.54
subject: Indians of North America--Fiction.
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Only Approved Indians
Stories
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OTHER BOOKS BY JACK D. FORBES
Apache, Navaho, and Spaniard (Norman, 1960, 1994; Westport,
Conn., 1980)
(ed.) The Indian in America's Past (Englewood Cliffs, 1964)
Warriors of the Colorado: The Yumas of the Quechan Nation and
Their Neighbors (Norman, 1965)
Afro-Americans in the Far West (Berkeley, 1967)
(ed.) Nevada Indians Speak (Reno, 1967)
Native Americans of California and Nevada (Healdsburg, 1969, 1982)
(ed.) Aztecas del Norte: The Chicanos of Aztlán (New York, 1973)
American Words: An Introduction to Those Native Words Used in
English (Davis, Calif., 1979)
Native Americans and Nixon: Presidential Policy and Minority Self-
Determination (Los Angeles, 1982)
(ed.)Native American Higher Education: The Struggle for the
Creation of D-Q University (Davis, Calif., 1985)
Black Africans and Native Americans: Race, Caste and Color in the
Evolution of Red-Black Peoples (Oxford, 1988; Urbana, 1933, as
Africans and Native Americans)
Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wétiko Disease of Exploitation,
Imperialism, and Terrorism (New York, 1992)
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Only Approved Indians
Stories
by Jack D. Forbes
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS
NORMAN AND LONDON
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Forbes, Jack D.
Only approved Indians: stories / by Jack D. Forbes
p. cm. (American Indian literature and critical studies series: v. 12)
ISBN 0-8061-2699-X (acid-free paper)
1. Indians of North AmericaSocial life and customs
Fiction.
I. Title. II. Series
PS3556.0667055 1995
813'.54dc20 94-24338
CIP
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and
durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book
Longevity of the Council on Library Resources, Inc.
Only Approved Indians: Stories, is Volume 12 in the
AMERICAN INDIAN
.
LITERATURE AND CRITICAL STUDIES SERIES
Copyright © 1995 by Jack D. Forbes. Published by the University of
Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University. All
rights reserved. Manufactured in the U.S.A.
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Dedicated to my wife,
Carolyn L. Forbes
(Go na shá Se ka náy)
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Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments xi
Only Approved Indians Can Play Made in USA 3
The Caged 6
An Incident in a Tour Among the Natives 18
Shaw 25
Someone to Love 44
A City Indian Goes to School 47
My Father's Visit 60
The Professor 62
Southside 63
When Professors Die 68
The Dream of Injun Joe: A Page from the Alcatraz 74
Seminars
South of Hope 86
The Sacrifice 92
The Laying On of the Hands 112
Lendra 128
The Edge of Things 145
The Cave 161

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Preface and Acknowledgments
I wrote my first short story when I was a young student at Glendale
College. It was a true story, but the instructor gave it a "B" because it
was "unbelievable." Almost thirty years later I started writing short
fiction again.
"Only Approved Indians Can Play Made in USA," my first 1979
story, was published in Simon J. Ortiz's anthology, Earth Power
Coming: Short Fiction in Native American Literature (Tsaile,
Arizona: Navajo Community College Press, 1984), and in Wesley
Brown and Amy Ling's Imagining America: Stories from the
Promised Land (New York: Persea Books, 1991). This story also
appeared in Sylvan Barnett (ed.), An Introduction to Literature (New
York: HarperCollins, 1994).
My first published short story was "The Professor," which appeared in
Winds of Change (a local Yolo County newspaper) 2(8) (March 1981);
14. The second was "The Caged," published in Winds of Change (June
1981: 67) and Okike: An African Journal of New Writing, no. 19
(September 1981); 5461, and reprinted in Critical Perspectives of
Third World America 1(1) (Fall 1983); 5664. "South of Hope''
appeared in Winds of Change 4 (4) (April 1983); 15, and in Rikka
(Canada) 9(1) (Spring 1984); 3840.
Of the other stories, "A City Indian Goes to School" was written in
1979; "The Laying On of the Hands," "The Cave," "Shaw,'' "When
Professors Die," "Southside," and "The Sacrifice" were all written in
1980,