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- catalog abstract ""Centered on the volatile issue of the repatriation of Native American skeletal remains, Chancers follows a group of student Solar Dancers who set out to resurrect native remains housed in the Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley." "Possessed by the demonic wiindigoo, a mythic monster, the Solar Dancers, in a gruesome ritual, sacrifice faculty and administrators associated with the collection and storage of native remains. The Dancers replace stored native skulls with those of the academics, and the resurrected natives become the Chancers." "The Round Dancers, humane and erotic trickster figures, are natural opponents of the morbid Solar Dancers. The war between the two groups comes to a comic conclusion at a graduation ceremony attended by Pocahontas; Phoebe Hearst; Alfred Kroeber, the anthropologist; Ishi, the native who actually lived and worked in the university museum; and many Chancers."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b11921204.
- catalog coverage "Berkeley (Calif.) Fiction.".
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""Centered on the volatile issue of the repatriation of Native American skeletal remains, Chancers follows a group of student Solar Dancers who set out to resurrect native remains housed in the Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley." "Possessed by the demonic wiindigoo, a mythic monster, the Solar Dancers, in a gruesome ritual, sacrifice faculty and administrators associated with the collection and storage of native remains. The Dancers replace stored native skulls with those of the academics, and the resurrected natives become the Chancers." "The Round Dancers, humane and erotic trickster figures, are natural opponents of the morbid Solar Dancers. The war between the two groups comes to a comic conclusion at a graduation ceremony attended by Pocahontas; Phoebe Hearst; Alfred Kroeber, the anthropologist; Ishi, the native who actually lived and worked in the university museum; and many Chancers."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog extent "159 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0806132663 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "American Indian literature and critical studies series ; v. 36".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Norman : University of Oklahoma Press,".
- catalog spatial "Berkeley (Calif.) Fiction.".
- catalog subject "813/.54 21".
- catalog subject "Antiquities Collection and preservation Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Cults Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Indians of North America Antiquities Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Indians of North America Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PS3572.I9 C47 2000".
- catalog subject "Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Sun dance Fiction.".
- catalog title "Chancers : a novel / Gerald Vizenor.".
- catalog type "Fiction. fast".
- catalog type "Horror fiction. gsafd".
- catalog type "Horror tales. lcsh".
- catalog type "Occult fiction. gsafd".
- catalog type "Occult fiction. lcsh".
- catalog type "text".