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Wil Usdi : thoughts from the asylum, a Cherokee novella

Title
Wil Usdi : thoughts from the asylum, a Cherokee novella / Robert J. Conley ; foreword by Luther Wilson ; with a tribute by Michell Hicks.
Author
Conley, Robert J.
Publication
Norman, OK : University of Oklahoma Press, [2015]

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Description
xiv, 140 pages : portrait; 22 cm.
Summary
Adopted into the Cherokee tribe as a teenager, William Holland Thomas (1805-93), known to the Cherokees as Wil Usdi (Little Will), went on to have a distinguished career as lawyer, politician, and soldier. He spent the last decades of his life in a mental hospital, where the pioneering ethnographer James Mooney interviewed him extensively about Cherokee lifeways. The true story of Wil Usdi's life forms the basis for this historical novella, the final published work of fiction by the late award-winning Cherokee author Robert J. Conley.
Series Statement
American Indian literature and critical studies series ; Volume 64
Uniform Title
American Indian literature and critical studies series ; v. 64.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Historical fiction.
  • Fiction.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Call Number
JFD 15-1559
ISBN
  • 9780806146591 (paperback)
  • 0806146591 (paperback)
LCCN
2014032931
OCLC
890971666
Author
Conley, Robert J., author.
Title
Wil Usdi : thoughts from the asylum, a Cherokee novella / Robert J. Conley ; foreword by Luther Wilson ; with a tribute by Michell Hicks.
Publisher
Norman, OK : University of Oklahoma Press, [2015]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
American Indian literature and critical studies series ; Volume 64
American Indian literature and critical studies series ; v. 64.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Research Call Number
JFD 15-1559
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