Description
Book SynopsisWinner Of The 2006 Oklahoma Book Awards Evidence of Red: Prose and Poems rails against lost lands and lovers, heralds death and mad warriors, and celebrates a doomed love affair between Hollywood’s invented characters: “Noble Savage” and “Indian Sports Mascot.” The author, a Choctaw Indian from Oklahoma writes about modern life in America, as well as the strange and humorous encounters she’s had with Arabs in Syria, and Jews in Israel. She writes of growing up in a family of native storytellers who tell of their lives and experiences.
Table of Contents
- Creation
- IT Geography
- Evidence of Red
- Hashi mi Mali
- The Unknown Women
- Chaos
- The Chaos of Angels
- How My Fever Broke
- The Red Wars
- Choctalking on Other Realities
- Cannibalism
- A Duck’s Tune
- A Carbon Isotopic Perspective on Dietary Variation in Late Prehistoric Times: Or, Friends I have Loved and Ingested
- The List We Make
- My Name Is Noble Savage
- The Indian Sports Mascot Meets Noble Savage
- Disney’s Pocahontas Longs for Noble Savage
- Ballad of Red Sorrow
- Still Code Talking
- Choctaw Code Talking
- The Lie
- Post-Mortem
- Bird Woman Returns
- Horse Dreaming
- Kick Boxing
- Indians Never Say Good-bye
