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The sacred white turkey / Frances Washburn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Washburn, Frances.
- Series:
- Flyover fiction.
- Flyover fiction
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Fiction.
- Women.
- Indians of North America--Fiction.
- Indians of North America.
- Shamans--Fiction.
- Shamans.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (207 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- There is nothing particularly noteworthy about an Easter turkey. But when the turkey is stark white and appears on Easter Sunday on the doorstep of a Lakota medicine woman and her teenage granddaughter, it is clearly out of the ordinary. Taking turns, Stella and her grandmother, Hazel Latour, tell the story of what follows as the mysterious turkey stirs up discord on the reservation, where some greet it as wakan, holy and sacred because of its coloring and timing, and others dismiss it as inexplicable but unimportant, while a less reputable local healer views it as a clear challenge to his sta
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-05080-3
- 9786613050809
- 0-8032-3296-9
- OCLC:
- 703156095
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