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01856aam a2200337 i 4500 001 96CFB8B4F09111E4AF152ED3DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20150502010131 008 140918s2015 okuc b 000 f eng 010 $a 2014032931 020 $a 0806146591 020 $a 9780806146591 035 $a (OCoLC)890971666 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d YDXCP $d BDX $d BTCTA $d OCLCF $d IXA $d IK2 $d CDX $d LEB $d COO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3553.O494 $b W476 2015 100 1 $a Conley, Robert J., $e author. 245 10 $a Wil Usdi : $b thoughts from the asylum, a Cherokee novella / $c Robert J. Conley ; foreword by Luther Wilson ; with a tribute by Michell Hicks. 264 1 $a Norman, OK : $b University of Oklahoma Press, $c [2015] 300 $a xiv, 140 pages : $b portrait ; $c 22 cm. 490 1 $a American Indian literature and critical studies series ; $v Volume 64 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a Adopted into the Cherokee tribe as a teenager, William Holland Thomas (1805-93), known to the Cherokees as Wil Usdi (Little Will), went on to have a distinguished career as lawyer, politician, and soldier. He spent the last decades of his life in a mental hospital, where the pioneering ethnographer James Mooney interviewed him extensively about Cherokee lifeways. The true story of Wil Usdi's life forms the basis for this historical novella, the final published work of fiction by the late award-winning Cherokee author Robert J. Conley. 650 0 $a Cherokee Indians $v Fiction. 830 0 $a American Indian literature and critical studies series ; $v v. 64. 941 $a 3 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006083820.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180109031125.0 952 $l PRAX771 $d 20150502024237.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=96CFB8B4F09111E4AF152ED3DAD10320 994 $a Z0 $b IODInitiate Another SILO Locator Search