The pashofa pole
Subtitle: a children's book
By: author, Mary M. Frye ; illustrator, Norma Howard ; translated by Henry Willis.
Contributors: Howard, Norma, ill.; Willis, Henry, 1929-
Publisher: Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Durant, OK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Choctaw Indians -- Fiction.; Indians of North America -- Fiction.; Grandmothers -- Fiction.; Sick -- Fiction.; Dogs -- Fiction.; Choctaw language materials -- Bilingual.
Genres: Fiction.; Bilingual.
Description: A Choctaw grandmother shares her recollection of a pole around which people danced when a man was very sick, a memory stirred by a bare tree standing near an abandoned cabin where the children later hear crying.
Notes: Text in Choctaw and English.
"The Pashofa Pole is a modern story, not an adaptation of a traditional tale."--P. facing t.p.