WHEN NICKELS WERE INDIANS PB (Smithsonian Series in Native American Literatures)

Born in Los Angeles, a blue-eyed descendant of the Nez Perce band, Patricia Penn Hilden passed in white society, a "vanished Indian, and safe." In this memoir of her urban, mixed-blood experience, she recalls her grandfather, a lingering presence and connection to traditions and people that rarely figure in mainstream American culture's notions of Indian identity. Photos & illustrations.