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John Milton Oskison. The Singing Bird.(Book review)

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From: World Literature Today
Date: 20071101
Author:Glancy, Diane

John Milton Oskison. The Singing Bird. Timothy B. Powell & Melinda Smith Mullikin, eds. Jace Weaver, foreword. Norman. University of Oklahoma Press. 2007. xlvii + 185 pages. $19.95. ISBN 978-0-8061-3818-3

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THE SINGING BIRD is about the more turbulent years of Cherokee history, 1820-65. It concerns the removal of the Cherokee from the Southeast and their resettlement in the Arkansas and Indian territories west of the Mississippi.

John Milton Oskison, a mixed-blood Cherokee, wrote the story sometime toward the end of his life. It remained ...

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