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Shell shaker / by LeAnne Howe.
Van Pelt Library PS3608.O95 S48 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Howe, LeAnne, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Fiction.
- United States.
- Oklahoma--Fiction.
- Oklahoma.
- Choctaw Indians--Fiction.
- Choctaw Indians.
- Organized crime--Fiction.
- Organized crime.
- Indian women--Fiction.
- Indian women.
- Casinos--Fiction.
- Casinos.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 227 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : Aunt Lute Books, [2001]
- Summary:
- "Why was Red Shoes, the most formidable Choctaw warrior of the eighteenth century, 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."--Jacket.
- Contents:
- Bood sacrifice
- The will to power
- Intek Aliha, the sisterhood
- Choctough
- Prayers for the mother
- Koi Chitto, the bone picker
- Penance
- A road of stars
- Borrowed time
- Funerals by Delores
- Black time
- Suspended animation
- The Nanih Waiya
- Road of darkness
- Heart of the panther
- Absolution
- The shell shaker.
- Notes:
- American Book Awards, Winner, 2002
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Burt fund bookplate.
- Cited in:
- Anim-Addo, Joan. This is the canon, 38
- Other Format:
- Online version: Howe, LeAnne. Shell shaker.
- ISBN:
- 1879960613
- 9781879960619
- 9781879960626
- 1879960621
- OCLC:
- 47625414
- Publisher Number:
- 99979065408
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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