Title: Indian giver
First published: 1983
Description: Sam Houston Leaping Deer is a Alabama-Coushatta Indian transported by his transcendent basketball talent from the reservation in East Texas to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (the Fighting Illini), where he immediately becomes a star. Gerald Duff's powerful work of satire, humor, and tragedy tells the story of Sam's encounter with the white man's world of greed and deception. While encountering a cross-section of sixties academia, he retains his inner world of Coushatta legends and traditions, a contradiction that forms the power of this memorable novel.
Subjects: Alabama Indians, Fiction, Koasati Indians, Alabama, fiction, Fiction, historical, general
LC classification: PS3554.U3177 I5 1983