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• Title:Calling for a blanket dance : a novel / by Oscar Hokeah.
  
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• Author/Creator:Hokeah, Oscar, 1975- author.
  
• Published/Created:Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2022.
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  • Location:EDUCATION LIBRARY Great ReadsWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: PS3608.O482755 C35 2022
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Indians of North America--Fiction.
  Families--United States--Fiction.
  Indigenous peoples--Fiction.
  
• Genre/Form:Bildungsromans.
  
• Edition:First edition.
  
• Description:258 pages ; 22 cm
  
• Summary:"A young Native American boy in a splintering family grasps for stability and love, making all the wrong choices until he finds a space of his own"-- Provided by publisher.
  Oscar Hokeah's electric debut takes us into the life of Ever Geimausaddle, whose family--part Mexican, part Native American--is determined to hold on to their community despite obstacles everywhere they turn. Ever's father is injured at the hands of corrupt police on the border when he goes to visit family in Mexico, while his mother struggles both to keep her job and care for her husband. And young Ever is lost and angry at all that he doesn't understand, at this world that seems to undermine his sense of safety. Ever's relatives all have ideas about who he is and who he should be. His Cherokee grandmother, knowing the importance of proximity, urges the family to move across Oklahoma to be near her, while his grandfather, watching their traditions slip away, tries to reuinte Ever with his heritage through traditional gourd dances. Through it all, every relative wants the same: to remind Ever of the rich an dsupportive communities that surround him, there to hold him tight, and for Ever to learn to take the strength given to him to save not only himself but also the next generation. How will this young man visualize a place for himself when the world hasn't made room for him to start with? Honest, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting, Calling for a Blanket Dance is the story of how Ever Geimausaddle finds his way home. -- From dust jacket.
  
• ISBN:9781643751474 hardcover
  1643751476 hardcover
  9781643752990 electronic book
  
• Contents:Lena Stopp (1976)
  Vincent Geimausaddle (1981)
  Hayes Shade (1986)
  Lila Geimausaddle-Quoetone (1990)
  Quinton Quoetone (1993)
  Turtle Geimausaddle (1995)
  Yolanda "Sissy" Chavez (1999)
  Hank Quoetone (2003)
  Araceli Chavez (2005)
  Leander Chasenuh (2008)
  Opbee Geimausaddle (2010)
  Ever Geimausaddle (2013).