Letters sent to Washington, D.
C., from Oklahoma Indians begging for help go unanswered--until Native American government official, Stace Red Hawk, travels west to investigate.
But he also found something truly extraordinary--his deepest self and abiding love for his people, and their brave past..
What he found has been documented by history: rampant fraud, intimidation, and murder. begging for help went unanswered, until at last a Native American government official, Stace Red Hawk, traveled west to investigate.
Letters sent to Washington, D.
C.
But she was murdered by the greed of white men, and the Graycloud family, who cared for her daughter, began dying mysteriously.
NEWSDAY Early in this century, rivers of oil were found beneath Oklahoma land belonging to Indian people, and beautiful Grace Banket became the richest person in the Territory.
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If you take up no other novel this year, or next, this one will suffice to hold, to disturb, to enlighten and to inspire you.
Winner of the 1990 Oklahoma Book Award for Fiction.
I wish everyone would read Mean Spirit.--Tony Hillerman.
Letters sent to Washington, D.
C., from Oklahoma Indians begging for help go unanswered--until Native American government official, Stace Red Hawk, travels west to investigate
