Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story by LeAnne Howe

By LeAnne Howe

Miko Kings is determined in Indian Territory's queen urban, Ada, Oklahoma, in the course of the baseball fever of 1907, yet strikes from side to side from 1969 through the Vietnam struggle to present-day Ada. the tale specializes in an Indian baseball crew yet brings a brand new knowing to the time period "America's favourite pastime." For tribes in Indian Territory, baseball used to be an extension of a game they would been enjoying for hundreds of years prior to their pressured removing to Indian Territory. during this energetic and funny paintings of fiction expert via cautious ancient learn, LeAnne Howe weaves unique and fictive files akin to newspaper clippings, images, typewritten letters, and handwritten magazine entries into the narrative.

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