Other Destinies
Subtitle: Understanding the American Indian Novel (American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: September 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780806126739
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Intellectual life; Native American Novel And Short Story In English; Literature - Classics / Criticism; American English; English; Poetry; USA; American - Native American; History and criticism; American fiction; Indian authors; Indians in literature; Indians of North America
First sentence: To begin to write about something called "the American Indian novel" is to enter a slippery and uncertain terrain.
Description: A fictionalized account of the massacre by the U.S. Army of a Cheyenne village after it had raised the white flag. The event occurred in 1864 in Colorado. The commander, Colonel John Chivington, was never brought to justice, while Captain Silas Soule, who with his company refused to participate, was killed as a traitor. Five hundred people died. By the author of The Dark Fire.