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Okla Hannali. [1st ed.].
Author
"Lafferty, R. A."
Publisher
Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday
Date1972
ClassificationsMain Library Collection
Object numberPZ4.L1627 Ok PS3562.A28
Description"xii, 221 p. 22 cm." Indians of North America--Fiction.
Five Civilized Tribes--Fiction.
Choctaw Indians--Fiction.
xii, 221 p. 22 cm.
This book is a tale of Hannali Innominee, a 'Mingo' or natural lord of the 19th-century Choctaw Indian and a capacious, indomitable giant of the ilk of Paul Bunyan....Lafferty tells it straight: how the Choctaw nation, once removed, reconstituted itself and thrived in Indian territory...., how there came a schism between the rich, part-white, slave-owning, moneylending Choctaws and the 'feudal, compassionate, chauvinistic' full-blooded freeholders like Hannali; and how, during the Civil War, the Indians were manipulated divide-and-conquer fashion in helping destroy each other