The Turtle's Beating Heart : One Family's Story of Lenape Survival.

The Turtle's Beating Heart : One Family's Story of Lenape Survival.

Grandchildren meet their grandparents at the end, Denise Low says, "as tragic figures. We remember their decline and deaths. ... The story we see as grandchildren is like a garden covered by snow, just outlines visible." Low brings to light deeply held secrets of Native ancestry as she rec...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Low, Denise
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : UNP - Bison Books, 2017
Series:American Indian lives.
Subjects:
Bruner, Frank, > 1889-1963.
Bruner family.
Low, Denise > Family.
Delaware Indians > Kansas > Biography.
Delaware Indians > Ethnic identity.
Delaware Indians > Kansas > History.
Indians of North America > Kansas > Ethnic identity.
Indians of North America > Cultural assimilation > Kansas.
Kansas > Social life and customs > 20th century > Anecdotes.
Kansas > Biography.
Biographies.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Part 1. A Twentieth- Century Native Man:Frank Bruner (1889-1963); Part 2. Cutting Ties: Dorothy Bruner(1915- 2002); Part 3. A Haunted Life: DeniseDotson (b. 1949); Part 4. Today: Living in Delaware Country; Notes; Bibliography.

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