Mean Spirit

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 1st Floor, NEW Winter 4-week checkout	Fiction / Hogan, Linda	4-week checkout	Due 05-10-2024
Malletts Adult Books, NEW Winter 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Historical / Hogan, Linda	4-week checkout	Due 05-08-2024
Westgate Adult Books, NEW Winter 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Historical / Hogan, Linda	4-week checkout	Due 05-16-2024

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. But she was murdered by the greed of white men, and the Graycloud family, who cared for her daughter, began dying mysteriously. Letters sent to Washington, D.C. begging for help went unanswered, until at last a Native American government official, Stace Red Hawk, traveled west to investigate. What he found has been documented by history: rampant fraud, intimidation, and murder. But he also found something truly extraordinary--his deepest self and abiding love for his people, and their brave past.

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Difficult submitted by 21621032124198 on March 21, 2021, 7:45am I learned a lot from this novel about the violence and cruelty associated with Oklahoma's oil riches in the 1920s, but it was a difficult novel to read. It was slow to start, but once I became familiar with the characters, the story moved quickly in and out of the lives of the townsfolk of the small Oklahoma town. My difficulty had to do with a constant feeling of helplessness and fear and anger over the injustices suffered by the American Indians in this novel.