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Crashing Thunder: The Autobiography of an American Indian
by
Paul Radin
Paul Radin, one of America's first and most reputable professional anthropologists, lived among the Winnebago Indians for years, and for years he tried without success to interview the notorious younger son of the Blow Snake family, the Crashing Thunder of this book. At last Crashing Thunder agreed to tell Radin his life story, one that Radin calls "a true rake's progress.
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Paperback
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256 pages
Published
November 12th 1999
by University of Michigan Press
(first published November 1st 1983)
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The few pages about this guy's father's advice about women make this book worth your time and money.
Jul 11, 2007
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Americans, People who like experimenting with hallucinogens
This book is the autobiography of a Native American named Crashing Thunder. Mostly written down from his oral transmission. The language is excellent preserving the spoken style of the language.
Crashing Thunder was born in Wisconsin, in a traditional Native American tribal setting. As a child Crashing Thunder sees his community dissolve into alcoholism, social and economic depression, and eventually total dissolution. After this he moves around the United States. Eventually he gets involved in t ...more
Crashing Thunder was born in Wisconsin, in a traditional Native American tribal setting. As a child Crashing Thunder sees his community dissolve into alcoholism, social and economic depression, and eventually total dissolution. After this he moves around the United States. Eventually he gets involved in t ...more
Originally published in the 1920s. Not quite ethnography, not quite autobiography, certainly not fiction, this is the life story of “the notorious younger son of the Blow Snake family” and a clan member in the Winnebago tribe, Native Americans who used to inhabit much of northern Wisconsin. The narrative follows Crashing Thunder through his childhood failure to attract visions via fasting, his increasing interest in women, his drinking, and finally his conversion into using peyote through the Na
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He was an American cultural anthropologist and folklorist.
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