Buffalo Dance
eBook - ePub

Buffalo Dance

The Journey of York

  1. 104 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Buffalo Dance

The Journey of York

About this book

When Frank X Walker's compelling collection of personal poems was first released in 2004, it told the story of the infamous Lewis and Clark expedition from the point of view of York, who was enslaved to Clark and became the first African American man to traverse the continent. The fictionalized poems in Buffalo Dance form a narrative of York's inner journey before, during, and after the expedition—a journey from slavery to freedom, from the plantation to the great Northwest, from servant to soul yearning to be free.
In this expanded edition, Walker utilizes extensive historical research, interviews, transcribed oral histories from the Nez Perce Reservation, art, and empathy to breathe new life into an important but overlooked historical figure. Featuring a new historical essay, preface, and sixteen additional poems, this powerful work speaks to such themes as racism, the power of literacy, the inhumanity of slavery, and the crimes against Native Americans, while reawakening and reclaiming the lost "voice" of York.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Epigraph
  7. Contents
  8. Historical Note
  9. Preface to the Expanded Edition
  10. Map
  11. Wind Talker
  12. Falls of the Ohio
  13. To Protect and Serve
  14. Work Ethic
  15. God's House
  16. Primer
  17. At Ease
  18. Sundays and Christmas
  19. Lie of Omission
  20. Calendar
  21. Her Current
  22. Medicine Men
  23. Spirit Mound
  24. Wasicum Sapa
  25. Winter Leaf
  26. Buffalo Dance
  27. A House is Not a Home
  28. No Offense
  29. Leading Men
  30. Domestique
  31. Work Song
  32. A Rock, a Fort, a Island
  33. Not the Only One
  34. Perfume
  35. Black Magic
  36. Sandstone Thighs
  37. Mouths and Waters
  38. Home, Home on the Range
  39. The Portage
  40. Sun Son
  41. Double Yolks
  42. Ornithologists
  43. Nigrathologists
  44. Swap Meet
  45. Promises
  46. Nomenclature
  47. Respect House
  48. Prosperity
  49. . . . Another Man’s Treasure
  50. Vision Quest
  51. Vision Quest II
  52. Ananse
  53. Mythology
  54. Traveling Men
  55. Earth Tones
  56. Sweat Lodge
  57. Doubt
  58. Cold Hearted
  59. Super(in)huMane
  60. Cure for Homesickness
  61. Sad Eye
  62. Aurora Borealis
  63. Electorate
  64. Winter with Jonah
  65. Majesty
  66. Pomp's Tower
  67. The Little Sneeze
  68. York Haichu
  69. Private Lessons
  70. Pastry Chefs
  71. Solid Black
  72. Pure White
  73. Unravel
  74. Revisionist History
  75. Monticello
  76. Souvenir
  77. Just Rewards
  78. A Love Supreme
  79. Night Breaks, Freedom Too
  80. Holy Water
  81. Ursa Major
  82. Cumulonimbus
  83. Birth Day
  84. Acknowledgments
  85. About the Author
  86. Kentucky Voices