Year in Nam: A Native American Soldier's Story (North American Indian Prose Award Series)
A memoir by a Jicarilla Apache veteran that follows his Vietnam War experience and the afterlife of that memory, quietly tracing the damage war leaves on both the individual and the community.
Work Information
The memory of war lasts long after the soldier comes home.
Leroy TeCube reflects on his own service in Vietnam and the life that followed. The book works both as a personal memoir and as a reminder of how war and return look from the perspective of an Indigenous soldier.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Bison Books
- Published
- 2000-08-01
- Pages
- 268 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 15.24 x 1.27 x 22.23 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780803294431
- ISBN-10
- 0803294433
- Price
- 7062 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/History/Americas/Native American
In 1968 Leroy TeCube left his home on the Jicarilla Apache reservation to serve as an infantryman in Vietnam. Year in Nam is his story of that long, terrifying, and numbing year of combat, one that profoundly affected the men in TeCube’s platoon and tested the strength of his own Native American heritage. Tecube was a respected point man and leader of his platoon. His memoir provides an intimate glimpse of the daily lives of infantrymen—the monotony of camp, the oppressive heat, the deceptively dull routine of patrols, the brief but furious eruptions of combat, the forging of platoon squads on the crucible of trust, a pervasive sadness and indifference, and a growing acceptance of the imminence of death. Particularly powerful are Tecube’s observations and experiences from the perspective of a Native American soldier. Many aspects of TeCube's cultural heritage—his traditional religious beliefs, the farewell blessing from an Apache medicine man, the memory of special powwow dances held back home for soldiers—were a source of strength to him.
Leroy TeCube works in the Environmental Protection Office of the Jicarilla Apache Tribe.
Reviews
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Great present
my husband read it and loved it.
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Well the only reason I read this book is because ...
Well the only reason I read this book is because my friend Darryl Hadaway is in it. And to be truthful, it is not a well written book.
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When I ordered this it did not state that it ...
When I ordered this it did not state that it was a used library book from a Colorado library!!!! This was to be a Christmas gift for someone who is Native American and served in Viet Nam!!!!