Fiction. Native American Studies. Red Shoes, the most formidable Choctaw warrior of the eighteenth century, was assassinated by his own people. Why does his death haunt Auda Billy, an Oklahoma Choctaw woman accused in 1991 of murdering Choctaw Chief Redford McAlester? Moving between the known details of Red Shoes' life and the riddle of McAlester's death, this novel traces the history of the Billy women whose destiny it is to solve both murders with the help of a powerful spirit known as the Shell Shaker.
"LeAnne Howe has done it. SHELL SHAKER is an elegant, powerful and knock out...
Fiction. Native American Studies. Red Shoes, the most formidable Choctaw warrior of the eighteenth century, was assassinated by his own people. Why do...
"Seeing Red--Hollywood's Pixeled Skins" is a sterling anthology of critical reviews that interrogates and reexamines the ways in which American Indians have been portrayed in film. These reviews by prominent scholars of American Indian Studies are accessible, personal, intimate, oftentimes autobiographic, and foreground the dramatic, frequently ridiculous difference between the experience of native peoples and its depiction in film. "Seeing Red" draws on the stereotypical representations of the past to suggest ways of seeing American Indians and indigenous peoples more clearly today.
"Seeing Red--Hollywood's Pixeled Skins" is a sterling anthology of critical reviews that interrogates and reexamines the ways in which American Indian...
