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- catalog abstract ""This book chronicles the extraordinary life of twentieth-century performing artist Molly Spotted Elk. Born in 1903 on the Penobscot reservation in Maine, Molly ventured into show business at an early age, following the example of many American Indians. Her success afforded her a vast range of experience - from performing vaudeville in New York and starring in the classic docu-drama The Silent Enemy to dancing for royalty and mingling with the literary elite in Europe." "Independent and ambitious, Molly strove to succeed in the wider world without surrendering her heritage. Her determination led her to Paris, where she found an audience more appreciative of authentic Native dance than in the United States. There she fell into a passionate love affair with a French journalist who eventually persuaded Molly to marry him. The German occupation of France in 1940 forced Molly to leave her husband and, with their young daughter, flee the country on foot over the Pyrenees Mountains. What happens to this family, and then to Molly's career, turns her tale from triumph into tragedy." "Molly Spotted Elk is important not only because of her life but also because she recorded it. Among her enduring achievements are her diaries - detailed and reflective records of her public and private experiences. These rare, personal documents of Native history shed light on the pressures she and her peers endured in having to act out white stereotypes of the "Indian.""--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b7664453.
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description ""This book chronicles the extraordinary life of twentieth-century performing artist Molly Spotted Elk. Born in 1903 on the Penobscot reservation in Maine, Molly ventured into show business at an early age, following the example of many American Indians. Her success afforded her a vast range of experience - from performing vaudeville in New York and starring in the classic docu-drama The Silent Enemy to dancing for royalty and mingling with the literary elite in Europe." "Independent and ambitious, Molly strove to succeed in the wider world without surrendering her heritage. Her determination led her to Paris, where she found an audience more appreciative of authentic Native dance than in the United States. There she fell into a passionate love affair with a French journalist who eventually persuaded Molly to marry him. The German occupation of France in 1940 forced Molly to leave her husband and, with their young daughter, flee the country on foot over the Pyrenees Mountains. What happens to this family, and then to Molly's career, turns her tale from triumph into tragedy." "Molly Spotted Elk is important not only because of her life but also because she recorded it. Among her enduring achievements are her diaries - detailed and reflective records of her public and private experiences. These rare, personal documents of Native history shed light on the pressures she and her peers endured in having to act out white stereotypes of the "Indian.""--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-350) and index.".
- catalog extent "xx, 360 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0806127562 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Norman : University of Oklahoma Press,".
- catalog spatial "France".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "973/.04973 20".
- catalog subject "Dancers France Biography.".
- catalog subject "Dancers United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "E99.P5 S755 1995".
- catalog subject "Penobscot Indians Biography.".
- catalog subject "Spotted Elk.".
- catalog title "Molly Spotted Elk : a Penobscot in Paris / by Bunny McBride ; foreword by Eunice Nelson-Bauman ; postscript by Jean Archambaud Moore.".
- catalog type "text".