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In 2023 Mack won the Great American Fiction Contest published by The Saturday Evening Post. Pneumonia!

136.
The Death of Tom Mitchell

137.
Ben Lancaster (Chief Gray Horse), Peyotist

138.
That Peeyot Business!

139.
Never Mix, Never Worry!

8.
Retirement Years (1954-74)

140.
A Falling Out with My Boss

141.
Campbell Ranch Land Assignment?

142.
No More Spuds!

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Ya'eep (‘Death’)

144.
Death of a Wife

145.
I Move to Mason Valley

146.
Attempted Reconciliation with My Boss

147.
Retirement in Mason Valley

148.
Some (More) Real Old-Timers

149.
Tales of Booha

150.
More Tales of Supernatural Power

151.
Natoorn^dweha (‘Animal Teaching Stories’)

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The Flood and Other Animal Teachings

153.
Giants and Waterbabies

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Wolf and Coyote

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Karroo'oo!

Other awards include Best Script at NYC's Midtown International Theatre Festival, First Prize in the Writers Circle National Poetry Competition, and two Fellowships in Dramatic Writing from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the state's most prestigious and competitive individual arts grant. Other awards include Best Script at NYC's Midtown International Theatre Festival, First Prize in the Writers Circle National Poetry Competition, and an Eloranta Fellowship that funded a residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre for the Arts in Ireland.

A generation before, his tribe had brought forth the prophet Wovoka, whose Ghost Dance swept the Indian world in the 1890s. This book will be invaluable to anyone with an interest in Northern Paiute culture, or life history studies.”—Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology
— Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology

“We are presented, then, with an important historical document.”--blogcritics

— blogcritics

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

1.
Birth and Family (1892)

2.
Sticks and Stones …

3.
A Name and a Birthdate

5.
Another Name for Me

6.
Big Mack's Name(s)

8.
Big Mack's Final Name Change

10.
Big Mack's Rage

11.
My Grandma, Tseehooka

13.
Poogooga'yoo (‘Horseman’)

14.
Three Brothers and Two Sisters

15.
Sibling Solidarity

2.
Boyhood (1892-1905)

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Them Taivo, They Come to Smith (and Mason) Valley!

17.
World's War!

18.
Tabooseedokado: Smith (and Mason) Valley Nuumuu

19.
One Real Old-Timer

20.
Growing Up in Smith Valley: Our House

22.
Some Traditional (Plant) Foods

23.
Tuubanuugwa (‘Pine Nut Dance’)

24.
Naavey^ts (‘Firstfruits’): Male Puberty Rite

25.
Hunting Proscriptions

26.
Games and So Forth

27.
Pahmoo (‘Indian Tobacco’)

28.
My Waseeyoo (‘Washo’) Indian Relations

29.
I Lose My Little Toe

3.
Boarding School (1905-10)

31.
Stewart Institute

32.
Why I Change My Name?

33.
Readin’ and Writin’ and ’Rithmetic

34.
Books and Grades

35.
Christopher Columbus

37.
Meals and Order

39.
My Stewart Nickname

41.
Parties in Stewart

42.
The Disciplinarian: Punishment and Jail

43.
That Jesus Business…

44.
Saturdays in Carson City

45.
Why I Leave Stewart?

46.
Nuumuu skooruunobee (‘Indian School House’): Stewart Reprise

4.
Work and Girls (1912-23)

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Back Home Again in Smith Valley

50.
Some Other Early Jobs

51.
Yet Another Early Job

52.
Workin' for the Man

53.
Jobs I Don't Like

54.
One Boss I Especially Like

55.
Ownin' Land

56.
My Grandma Remarries

57.
Coyote Dreamin'

59.
Them City Girl(s)!

61.
Ranch Work in Mason Valley

63.
Celia Mack's Real Name

64.
Pash^p!

University of Nevada Press, 2013
Paper: 978-0-87417-915-6 | eISBN: 978-0-87417-916-3
Library of Congress Classification E99.P2.M335 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.8974577
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Corbett Mack (1892–1974), was a Northern Paiute of mixed ancestry, caught between Native American and white worlds.

Mack has performed at the US Library of Congress, Yale University, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, the Austin International Poetry Festival, Off-Off-Broadway at the Times Square Arts Center, and at the FBI's 32nd Annual Hostage Negotiation Seminar. (‘Childless!’)

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Reflections on Bachelorhood

5.
Italians, Potatoes, Homemade Wine (1923-58)

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Them Aytayay (‘Italians’)!

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Aytayay Stinginess

69.
My Boss, Amos Macarini [Mencarini]

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The Boss's Wife

71.
Working for Amos Mencarini

72.
Life on the (Potato) Plantation

73.
One Nuumuu Death, One Bunkhouse

74.
Our Own House to Live in

76.
Homemade Aytayay Wine

77.
Bootleggin'

78.
Indian Bootleggers

79.
How I Learn to Drink?

80.
Hard Drinkin’

81.
One Time, Though…

82.
Why Indians Drink?

6.
Chinese Opium (1896-1931)

83.
'Oopeey^n (‘Opium’)

84.
Beginnings of Opiate Addiction in Smith (and Mason) Valley

85.
Alternative Origin

86.
The Chinese Connection

87.
Moohoo'oo (‘Yen-Shee’)

88.
Your Own Outfit

89.
The Life of the Nuumuu Addict

90.
Buyin' Moohoo'oo

91.
Other “Celestial” Connections

92.
No More Chinaman!

93.
An Unlikely Connection!

94.
A Meeting with My Real Father

95.
The Indian Connection

97.
Willy Muldoon's Base of Operations

98.
Sellin' for Willy Muldoon

100.
I Am Nearly Arrested

101.
Willy, He Get Caught!

102.
George Emm, Last of the Yen-Shee Sellers

103.
Shootin' Moohoo'oo

104.
Shootin' Moohoo 'oo: Alternative Version

106.
Toha Moohoo 'oo (‘Morphine’)

107.
Sellin' Morphine

108.
Waseeyoo Morphine Sellers

109.
Mike Rube, Last of the Indian Sellers?

110.
Withdrawal Symptoms

111.
What to Take for Withdrawal Symptoms?

112.
Over-the-Counter Remedies

113.
Contract Physican

114.
Once More, Once

115.
Geography of Addiction

117.
Opiates: Reprise

7.
Some Real Old-Timers (1896-1940)

118.
Never Mix, Never Worry!

119.
Another Time…

120.
I Am Arrested!

121.
One Real Old-Timer's Belief

122.
Wodzeewob, 1870 Ghost Dance Prophet

123.
Jack Wilson (Wovoka), 1890 Ghost Dance Prophet

124.
Jack Wilson's Booha (‘Power’)

125.
Jack Wilson's Dances

126.
Doctored by Jack Wilson

127.
Hongo, Virginia City Paiute Rubber

128.
A Different Kind of Cure

130.
Nuumuu Puharr^ (‘Witchcraft’)

131.
Tom Mitchell's Witchin' Way

132.
I Love Tom Mitchell's Daughters

133.
The Death of Jack Wilson

134.
Pneumonia!

Michael Mack is two-time winner of an Artist Fellowship in Dramatic Writing from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the state's most prestigious and competitive individual arts grant, for his autobiographical solo plays – in 2005 for Hearing Voices, Speaking in Tongues, about his mother's recovery from schizophrenia, and in 2013 for Conversations with My Molester: A Journey of Faith, about the spirituality of trauma.

Mack lives near Boston.

Books by Michael Mack

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Spinoza and the Specters of Modernity: The Hidden Enlightenment of Diversity from Spinoza to Freud
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Best Short Stories from The Saturday Evening Post Great American Fiction Contest 2023
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Philosophy and Literature in Times of Crisis: Challenging our Infatuation with Numbers
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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.

Exposure!

135.
Exposure! No More Nothin'!

157.
No More, He Comeback(s)

158.
Disillusionment?

Epilogue

159.
Final Visit (1973) with Corbett Mack: A Conversation

Appendix A:
Local Newspaper Accounts of Opiates in Smith and Mason Valleys, Nevada (1896-1931)

Appendix B:
Report of Narcotic Situation among the Indians of the Walker River Jurisdiction (1931)

Appendix C:
Narcotics in Smith and Mason Valleys (1929)

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about michael mack

shorter bio

Award-winning poet, playwright, and performer Michael Mack is best known for his autobiographical solo plays Hearing Voices, Speaking in Tongues, about his mother's recovery from schizophrenia, and Conversations with My Molester: A Journey of Faith, about the spirituality of trauma.

Mack graduated from the Writing Program at MIT.

His work has aired on NPR and has been published by America, Parabola, Journal of the American Medical Association, Beloit Poetry Journal, and twice has been anthologized in Best Catholic Writing. He has also performed at scores of venues for consumers and providers of mental health services, including McLean Psychiatric Hospital, the national conference of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), and for faculty and students of the Harvard Medical School.

longer bio

After serving in the US Air Force as an aircraft crew chief, Michael Mack worked a variety of factory and labor jobs before returning to school and graduating from the Writing Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

His plays have been covered by The New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Backstage Magazine, and on NPR.

In 2023 Mack won the Great American Fiction Contest published by The Saturday Evening Post. He studied poetry under Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, and was mentored by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Maxine Kumin.

Mack's stories and poems have been published in America, Parabola, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Beloit Poetry Journal, Cumberland Poetry Review, and twice have been anthologized in Best Catholic Writing (2005 and 2007).

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.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Michael Hittman is professor emeritus at Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York, and the author of Great Basin Indians: An Encyclopedic History.

REVIEWS

“Corbett Mack: The Life of a Northern Paiute is a superb addition to the life history literature, and its author is an excellent field ethnographer.

Mack has performed at the US Library of Congress, Yale University, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, the Columbia Festival of the Arts, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, the Austin International Poetry Festival, Off-Off-Broadway at the Times Square Arts Center, and at the FBI's 32nd Annual Hostage Negotiation Seminar.

He has also performed at scores of venues for consumers and providers of mental health services, including McLean Psychiatric Hospital, the national conference of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), and for faculty and students of the Harvard Medical School.

See artist resume for full list of performances, publications, awards, etc.