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Title	:	Sun Chief: The Autobiography of a Hopi Indian
Author	:	Don C. Talayesva
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 488 pages
Published	:	September 10th 1963 by Yale University Press (first published 1945)
Categories	:	History. Autobiography. Memoir. Nonfiction. Biography. Anthropology

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This is a very eye-opening autobiography in the world of the Hopi. It was assigned for my cross-cultural psychology class and while the length made it stressful to finish I'm glad it was introduced to my life. I know various things about Native Americans from history classes and I know of their mistreatment. This book gives you a view into the Native American, Hopi in particular, life from the perspective of Don Talayesva. The reader is able to follow his activities from birth and by doing so actions that occur out of context make a lot of sense because throughout the book one is given the basis of the Hopi culture and their beliefs. I believe it is helpful to learn about different cultures in our world, especially one so close to our home in the United States Even if their rituals and beliefs clash with your own you should be able to appreciate that their aim is the same, at least in Don's case, to be good people.

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Original Title:	Sun Chief: The Autobiography of a Hopi Indian (Yale Western Americana Paperbounds Serie)
ISBN:	0300002270 (ISBN13: 9780300002270)
Edition Language:	English

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This is a very eye-opening autobiography in the world of the Hopi. It was assigned for my cross-cultural psychology class and while the length made it stressful to finish I'm glad it was introduced to my life. I know various things about Native Americans from history classes and I know of their mistreatment. This book gives you a view into the Native American, Hopi in particular, life from the perspective of Don Talayesva. The reader is able to follow his activities from birth and by doing so

An autobiography of a Hopi man who lived from 1890 into the 1940s. This book was cutting-edge at the time -- a "psychobiography" or examination of patterns someone's life events as a way of understanding his or her personality. It did bother me that the editor, Leo Simmons, approached Talayesva as an example of social "maladjustment," and that he sometimes coerced him into talking and writing about tribal knowledge. But I have given this book a high rating anyway because there are a lot of

One of my absolute favorite books. I need to make time to reread it.



This book was very informative, both on how to write autobiographies, but also about the culture of Hopi Indians. This could be very useful if I decide to incorporate this information in a literary journalistic piece

A classic life history/autobiography of an early 20th century Hopi leader, with all the problems associated with Anglo anthropologists 'collecting' First Nations' stories, revealing the things they shouldn't, and betraying in the name of 'science' - but with it an exceptional piece of work 'from the native's point of view' (as Clifford Geertz would have described it).

I love this book so much that I've read it 5 times over the past 40 years and will again. One of the few firsthand accounts of a Native that doesn't suck up to white presumptions. Don is whipsmart, funny, bawdy, sometimes cruel, and always a wonderful writer. I can almost smell the cedar smoke and corn when I read him.