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Calling for a blanket dance  Cover Image Book Book

Calling for a blanket dance / a novel by Oscar Hokeah.

Summary:

"A young Native American boy in a splintering family grasps for stability and love, making all the wrong choices until he finds a space of his own"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781643751474 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 258 pages : genealogical table ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2022.
Subject: Families > United States > Fiction.
Indigenous peoples > North America > Fiction.
Genre: Bildungsromans.
Novels.

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  • 0 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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  • 1 current hold with 1 total copy.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Stroud Branch FIC Hokea 31681010288264 FICTION In transit -

Oscar Hokeah is a citizen of Cherokee Nation and the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma from his mother's side and has Mexican heritage through his father. He holds an MA in English with a concentration in Native American Literature from the University of Oklahoma, as well as a BFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), with a minor in Indigenous Liberal Studies. He is a recipient of the Truman Capote Scholarship Award through IAIA and is also a winner of the Native Writer Award through the Taos Summer Writers Conference. His short stories have been published in South Dakota Review, American Short Fiction, Yellow Medicine Review, Surreal South, and Red Ink Magazine. He works with Indian Child Welfare in Tahlequah.


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