Ghost Rider Roads: Inside the American Indian Movement 1971-2012
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- Published on Tuesday, 08 July 2014 10:40
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Camas Books & Infoshop https://www.facebook.com/events/542746432503793/
Antoinette Nora Claypoole will be talking about her years in and around the American Indian Movement (AIM), reading from her recent books (2013) about AIM, "Ghost Rider Roads, 2nd Edition" and "blue, like Night Sky". She'll also be speaking in support of John Graham, S. Tuchone, (from the Yukon) who is serving a life sentence in the U.S., wrongfully accused of a 1976 murder within AIM.
Partial proceeds of the book sales will go to Graham's family. More info visit www.wildembers.com or contact Camas Bookstore.
"Ghost Rider Roads" is antoinette nora's opus. Immensely interesting... Congrats on an amazing book."
~~ Harvey Arden, editor of My Life is my Sundance by Leonard Peltier
Authors BIO:
Born in Rochester, N.Y. travelling the world as an “army brat” antoinette nora claypoole moved from PIttsburgh, Pa to Southern Oregon where she met members of the American Indian Movement. The work within this movement informed a. nora’s writing life. Published in various renegade anthologies in the North and South west of the U.S.A. she believes that if you love mosquitoes they won’t bite. currently completing a book of the lost works of Louise Bryant (1885-1936), for which she received an Oregon Literary Arts Award, a. nora’s first book (Who would Unbraid her Hair, 1999)--about Anna Mae Aquash, member of the American Indian Movement found murdered in 1976—recently became part of the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C., permanent library collection.
More bio info: www.antoinettewritings.blogspot.com
