By Mary Louise Contini Gordon

TIQ SLO’W is the ethnographic biography of a local American leader, Charlie Cooke, a guy who through many counts couldn't exist. yet right here he's: a cowboy, a ranch hand, a rodeo champ, a Korean warfare veteran, a standard husband and father, and a truck motive force. this can be a tale of ironies, of a guy whose ancestral lands have been taken and, every now and then, ravaged, and of a guy whose tradition used to be nearly obliterated. it's the tale of a guy who labored tirelessly to maintain those ancestral lands for posterity, for his descendants and for the descendants of the very those that took lands from his forbearers. TIQ SLO’W, the identify in which many be aware of Charlie Cooke, tells of management between different local american citizens, anthropologists, civic leaders, and nation and nationwide Park administration. The management and historical views intertwine.

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