Evelyn Sibley Lampman (1907–1980)
Autor de The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: Evelyn Sibley Lampman
Series
Obras de Evelyn Sibley Lampman
The Plymouth adventure; Condensed and simplified for quick reading by Evelyn Sibley Lampman (1954) 5 copias
Special year 3 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Otros nombres
- Bronson, Lynn (pseudonym)
Woodfin, Jane (pen name) - Fecha de nacimiento
- 1907-04-18
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1980-06-13
- Lugar de sepultura
- River View Cemetery, Portland, Oregon, USA
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Dallas, Oregon, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Portland, Oregon, USA
- Causa de fallecimiento
- bile duct cancer
- Lugares de residencia
- Portland, Oregon, USA
- Educación
- Oregon Agricultural College (now Oregon State University)
- Ocupaciones
- radio writer
educational director, KEX radio - Relaciones
- Lampman, Ben Hur (father-in-law)
Lampman, Herbert Sheldon (husband) - Premios y honores
- Dororthy Canfield Fisher Award
Western Writers of American Award
Miembros
Debates
Found: Stegosaurus in Colorado en Name that Book (septiembre 2021)
Native American middle grade histocial fiction novel Year of Shad? en Name that Book (enero 2017)
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 35
- Miembros
- 885
- Popularidad
- #28,944
- Valoración
- 4.1
- Reseñas
- 17
- ISBNs
- 30
Time Frame: sometime around the Vietnam War. The narrator is a high school girl whose family is Chinook (no current tribal landbase, traditional homelands around the mouth of the Columbia River in Oregon) and living in poverty. She describes situations in which prejudice is clear, her home life which includes wood heat and no running water. Her brother has returned from the Vietnam War, after a stint in hospital. He has ideas for restoring his community's pride, providing income by hosting potlatch events, relying on the memories and teachings of the elders along with the energy and labor of the younger ones. His whole family, some reluctantly, become involved. Even though they have to make some modifications, based on natural resources available, it proves a success and develops into an ongoing tourist attraction.
I think one criticism "A Broken Flute" might make is that it took the financial help of a local white family, just another book showing Indians can't make progress on their own. But perhaps that assumption is wrong. It could also be seen as all people working together, in unity, for a just world. It also shows that the tribe is still here and valuing a cultural core, despite lacking federal recognition.… (más)