City Indian a coming-of-age story, like many, rife with familial dysfunction, booze, and lust. This one is set against the back drop of the 1950's; the character, Hebe is only four and the child of an "American Indian" father and a White mother. Interracial marriage is illegal in thirty-five of the forty-eight states, and discrimination and racially-based bullying are legal and accepted practices. They wreaked havoc on families' and children's minds. Among her loving multi-racial family, she learns acceptance, but she goes into the world, to school and faces a society which labels and judges...