Muscogee Daughter
eBook - ePub

Muscogee Daughter

My Sojourn to the Miss America Pageant

  1. 264 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Muscogee Daughter

My Sojourn to the Miss America Pageant

About this book

How American is Miss America? For Susan Supernaw, a Muscogee (Creek) and Munsee Native American, the question wasn't just academic. Throughout a childhood clouded by poverty, alcoholism, abuse, and a physical disability, Supernaw sought escape in school and dance and the Native American Church. She became a presidential scholar, won a scholarship to college, and was crowned Miss Oklahoma in 1971. Supernaw might not have won the Miss America pageant that year, but she did call attention to the Native peoples living largely invisible lives throughout their own American land. And she did at long last earn her Native American name. Chronicling a quest to escape poverty and find meaning, Supernaw's story is revealing, humorous, and deeply moving. Muscogee Daughter is the story of finding a Native American identity among the distractions and difficulties of American life and of discerning an identity among competing notions of what it is to be a woman, a Native American, and a citizen of the world.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication Page
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Foreword
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Family Genealogy
  11. 1. Blessings Inside a Tipi
  12. 2. Jimmy
  13. 3. Bozo
  14. 4. Horse Crazy
  15. 5. A New Name
  16. 6. Metamorphosis
  17. 7. Sewer Rats
  18. 8. Beef Noodle
  19. 9. Susie Q
  20. 10. Super Sue
  21. 11. Tomorrow’s Leader
  22. 12. Coming Home
  23. 13. Scorpio Sue
  24. 14. Superstar Supernaw
  25. 15. The Barefoot Queen
  26. 16. The Indian Queen
  27. 17. Dancing Feet
  28. 18. Ellia Ponna
  29. Notes