Product Description: In this challenging and often humorous book, Louis Owens examines issues of Indian identity and relationship to the environment as depicted in literature and film and as embodied in his own mixedblood roots in family and land. Powerful social and historical forces, he maintains, conspire to colonize literature and film by and about Native Americans into a safe "Indian Territory" that will contain and neutralize Indians...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Two half-Cherokee ranchers named Billy Keene and Will Striker find a dead man and a million dollars in the New Mexico desert, a discovery that leads them to a confrontation with their families' past and the Nightland--the place in Cherokee tradition where darkness reigns

Cole McCurtain, a professor of Indian Studies at Santa Cruz, investigates a series of murders with a connection to ecological diasaster

When Attis McCurtain, a Vietnam veteran of mixed Choctaw and other origins, dies, his uncle commands Attis' younger brother Cole to find and bury his brother's bones, and in the process Cole and his friend Mundo Morales come to terms with their mixed heritages

When Attis McCurtain, a half-Choctaw Native American and Vietnam veteran, is killed, deputy sheriff Mundo Morales investigates while the victim's younger brother begins a spiritual journey that also leads him to the truth. Reprint.

Book by Owens, Louis (view table of contents)

Product Description: Book by Owens, Louis