Title: Family matters, tribal affairs
First published: 1998
Description: Carter Revard was born in the Osage Indian Agency town of Pawhuska, Oklahoma. He won a radio quiz scholarship to the University of Tulsa, was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, and in 1952 was given his Osage name by his grandmother and the tribal elders.

How his family coped with the dizzying extremes of the Great Depression and the Osage Oil Boom and with small-town life in the Osage hills is the subject of this book. It is about how Revard came to be a writer and a scholar, how his Osage roots have remained alive, about the alienation of being an Indian who "didn't look Indian," and about finding community, even far from home.

Above all, this is a book about identity, about an Osage son who grew up to find that the world is neither Indian nor white but many colors in between.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Indian authors, Indians of North America, Family, Intellectual life, History and criticism, American literature, American Authors, Osage Indians, Authors, American, Family relationships, Biography, Indians of north america, west (u.s.), Indians of north america, social life and customs, American literature, indian authors, Authors, biography, Indians of north america, culture
Places: Great Plains
People: Carter Revard
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PS501 .S85 vol. 36, PS3568.E784 .S85 vol. 36