Corbett Mack

The Life of a Northern Paiute

• Author(s): Michael Hittman,
• Publisher: University of Nevada Press
• Pages: 416
• ISBN_10: 0874179165
  ISBN_13: 9780874179163
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / General , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American Studies , Social Science / Anthropology / General , Biography & Autobiography / Historical ,

Description:... Corbett Mack (1892–1974), was a Northern Paiute of mixed ancestry, caught between Native American and white worlds. A generation before, his tribe had brought forth the prophet Wovoka, whose Ghost Dance swept the Indian world in the 1890s. Mack’s world was a harsh and bitter place after the last Native American uprisings had been brutally crushed; a life of servitude to white farmers and addiction to opium. Hittman uses Mack’s own words to retell his story, an uncompromising account of a traumatized life that typified his generation, yet nonetheless made meaningful through the perseverance of Paiute cultural traditions.