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Did You Hear Wind Sing Your Name?: An Oneida Song of Spring (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.53 — 32 ratings — published 1995
The Oneida Creation Story (Sources of American Indian Oral Literature)
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avg rating 4.36 — 14 ratings — published 2000
prisoner of the iorquois (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
Traitor in the Shipyard: A Caroline Mystery (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 400 ratings — published 2013
Caroline Takes a Chance (American Girls: Caroline, #4)
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avg rating 4.11 — 911 ratings — published 2012
Villages of vision (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.80 — 5 ratings — published 1978
Oneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well-Set Table (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.57 — 413 ratings — published 2016
Desire & Duty at Oneida: Tirzah Miller's Intimate Memoir (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 23 ratings — published 2000
Without Sin: The Life and Death of the Oneida Community (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.59 — 147 ratings — published 1993
On the Rez (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 1,892 ratings — published 2000
“A gifted violin player in danger of becoming a virtuoso and thus too attached to his instrument handed it over to the Oneida authorities and never played again. When a visiting Canadian teacher complained that the community did not foster “genius or special talent,” Noyes was delighted, replying, “We never expected or desired to produce a Byron, a Napoleon, or a Michelangelo.” You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality.”
― Assassination Vacation
― Assassination Vacation
“Back inside, I’m shown an antique cabinet in which members of the community, famous for their homegrown produce, dried herbs.
The Oneida Community was an upstate tourist attraction right from the start, second, Valesky says, to Niagara Falls. I’m taking the same guided tour offered a hundred and fifty years ago to prim rubbernecks who came here to peep at sex fiends. I wonder how many of my vacationing forebears went home disappointed? They thought they were taking the train to Gomorrah but instead they got to watch herbs dry. Valesky opens a drawer in the herb cabinet so I can get a whiff. He mentions that back in the day, when one tourist was shown the cabinet she rudely asked her community-member guide, “What’s that odor?” To which the guide replied, “Perhaps it’s the odor of crushed selfishness.” Valesky grins. “How about that for a utopian answer?” To my not particularly utopian nose, crushed selfishness smells a lot like cilantro.”
― Assassination Vacation
The Oneida Community was an upstate tourist attraction right from the start, second, Valesky says, to Niagara Falls. I’m taking the same guided tour offered a hundred and fifty years ago to prim rubbernecks who came here to peep at sex fiends. I wonder how many of my vacationing forebears went home disappointed? They thought they were taking the train to Gomorrah but instead they got to watch herbs dry. Valesky opens a drawer in the herb cabinet so I can get a whiff. He mentions that back in the day, when one tourist was shown the cabinet she rudely asked her community-member guide, “What’s that odor?” To which the guide replied, “Perhaps it’s the odor of crushed selfishness.” Valesky grins. “How about that for a utopian answer?” To my not particularly utopian nose, crushed selfishness smells a lot like cilantro.”
― Assassination Vacation
