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Shell shaker / LeAnne Howe.

Title
Shell shaker / LeAnne Howe.
Author
Howe, LeAnne
Publication
San Francisco, CA : Aunt Lute Books, c2001.

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TextRequest in advance PS3608.O95 S48 2001Off-site

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Description
227 p.; 22 cm.
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."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  • 1600-1775
  • Choctaw Indians > Fiction
  • Organized crime > Fiction
  • Indian women > Fiction
  • Casinos > Fiction
  • United States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > Fiction
  • Oklahoma > Fiction
Genre/Form
  • Domestic fiction
  • Historical fiction
  • Domestic fiction.
  • Fiction
  • History
  • Fiction.
  • Historical fiction.
  • History.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
1879960613
LCCN
^^2001046250
OCLC
  • 47625414
  • SCSB-12243082
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library