In the Land of the Grasshopper Song
Two Women in the Klamath River Indian Country in 1908-09, Second Edition
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- English
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In the Land of the Grasshopper Song
Two Women in the Klamath River Indian Country in 1908-09, Second Edition
About this book
In 1908 easterners Mary Ellicott Arnold and Mabel Reed accepted appointments as field matrons in Karuk tribal communities in the Klamath and Salmon River country of northern California. In doing so, they joined a handful of white women in a rugged region that retained the frontier mentality of the gold rush some fifty years earlier. Hired to promote the federal government’s assimilation of American Indians, Arnold and Reed instead found themselves adapting to the world they entered, a complex and contentious territory of Anglo miners and Karuk families.
In the Land of the Grasshopper Song, Arnold and Reed’s account of their experiences, shows their irreverence towards Victorian ideals of womanhood, recounts their respect toward and friendship with Karuks, and offers a rare portrait of women’s western experiences in this era. Writing with self-deprecating humor, the women recall their misadventures as women “in a white man’s country” and as whites in Indian country. A story about crossing cultural divides, In the Land of the Grasshopper Song also documents Karuk resilience despite seemingly insurmountable odds.
New material by Susan Bernardin, André Cramblit, and Terry Supahan provides rich biographical, cultural, and historical contexts for understanding the continuing importance of this story for Karuk people and other readers.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half Title Page
- I Go Make Medicine
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Foreword to the New Bison Books Edition
- Introduction
- Foreword
- Contents
- I The Unmapped Way, and How, Finally, We Hit the Trail, and the Mountains Closed Around Us
- II Innocents Abroad in the Land of the White Man
- III We Cross the River into Indian Country
- IV The Course of True Love, Indian Way
- V Indians at Home, When There Ain’t No Growl, nor No Trouble
- VI Indians at Home: the Essie Growl and the Water Growl
- VII Innocents Abroad on the Professional Trail
- VIII The Ford at Siwillup
- IX Indian Gambling, and Other Topics of the Day in Indian Country
- X We Make the World Over and Leave Out Something
- XI Everybody Got Trouble When the World Is Made Wrong, Indians and Everybody
- XII We Hit the Trail for Points East, with all the Glories of Iced Tea, Iced Coffee, Fried Chicken, and Ice Cream in the Offing
- XIII Return to the Rivers: Everybody Got Trouble, White People and Everybody
- XIV Moving Day on the Klamath
- XV Indians at Home in Up-river Country
- XVI The Baby Growl
- XVII We Introduce White Customs in the Form of Two Christmas Trees, and, for a Moment, Fear We May Regret It
- XVIII Ti Postheree
- XIX The Open Trail
- XX The Schoolmarms Come Down Like Wolves on Yreka, and Then Celebrate the Fourth in Indian Country
- XXI We Cross Marble Mountain and Find the Indian Ain’t Got No Chance in White Men’s Country
- XXII The Great Deerskin Dance
- XXIII Farewell to the Klamath
- XXIV I-to Poo-a-rum