TY - BOOK ID - 135625728 TI - The Nebraska dispatches PY - 2010 SN - 128305101X 9786613051011 0803234228 9780803234222 9780803222946 0803222947 PB - Lincoln University of Nebraska Press DB - UniCat KW - One-person shows (Performing arts) KW - Standing Bear, Luther, KW - Cartmill, Christopher KW - Nebraska UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135625728 AB - When playwright Christopher Cartmill returned to his hometown of Lincoln, Nebraska, to write a play about Chief Standing Bear, he unknowingly began a complicated adventure. As he followed the story of the Ponca chief who fought so hard to return from a reservation in Oklahoma to his homeland in northern Nebraska, Cartmill stumbled into the politics of identity, contested notions of homeland, and his own past. Chronicling these adventures in a series of dispatches to friends, he documented the transformation of a research trip into a three-year exploration of Nebraska, its Native community, the ER -