Take Singing An Indian Song: A Biography Of DArcy McNickle Executed By Dorothy R. Parker Exhibited In Physical Book

of the foremost Native American intellectuals of his generation, D'Arcy McNickle is best known today for the American Indian history center that carries his name at the Newberry Library in

Chicago, and for his novels, The Surrounded, Runner in the Sun, and Wind from an Enemy Sky.
A historian and novelist, he was also an anthropologist, Bureau of Indian Affairs official during the heady days of the Indian New Deal, teacher, and founding member of the National Congress of American Indians.
The child of a Métis mother and white father, he was an enrolled member of the Flathead Tribe of Montana, But first, and largely by choice, he was a Native American who sought to restore pride and selfdetermination to all Native American people, Based on a wide range of previously untapped sources, this first fulllength biogrpahy traces the course of McNickle's life from the reservation of his childhood through a career of major import to American Indian political and cultural affairs.
In so doing it reveals a man who affirmed his own heritage while giving a collective Indian voice to many who had previously seen themselves only in a tribal context.
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