No One Ever Asked Me - The World War II Memoirs of an Omaha Indian Soldier (Electronic book text)

As a young adolescent, Hollis Dorion Stabler underwent a Native ceremony in which he was given the new name Na-zhin-thia, Slow to Rise. It was a name that no white person asked to know during Holliss tour of duty in Anzio, his unacknowledged difference as an Omaha Indian adding to the poignancy of his uneasy fellowship with foreign and American soldiers alike. Stablers storycoming of age on the American plains, going to war, facing new estrangement upon coming homeis a universal one, rendered wonderfully strange and personal by Stablers uncommon perspective, which embraces two worlds, and by his unique voice.