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Wil Usdi : thoughts from the asylum, a Cherokee novella / Robert J. Conley ; foreword by Luther Wilson ; with a tribute by Michell Hicks.
- 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.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Historical fiction
- Fiction
- Fiction.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Reflection -- The ethnologist -- The young entrepreneur -- The state senator -- Memories -- Immortals -- The storm -- Back home -- Chief, senator, colonel -- Big breakout attempt -- Narrow escapes -- Wandering in the desert -- Tsali -- The lawsuit and more -- The jailbreak -- The madman remembers history -- The prayer.
- ISBN
- 9780806146591
- 0806146591
- LCCN
- ^^2014032931
- OCLC
- 890971666
- SCSB-11214530
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library