<![CDATA[Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story]]>

false <![CDATA[Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story]]> 900458 1 "This is where the twentieth-century Indian really began . . . not in the abstractions of congressional acts, but on the prairie diamond."-Henri Day Miko Kings is set in Indian Territory's queen city, Ada, Oklahoma, during the baseball fever of 1903 and simultaneously in 1969, the Vietnam era. The story centers on the lives of Hope Little Leader, a Choctaw pitcher for the Miko Kings baseball team; Lucius Mummy, a switch hitter; and Ezol Daggs, the postal clerk in Indian Territory. It is Daggs who, in attempting to patent her Choctaw theory of relativity, inadvertently changes the course of history for the Indians and their baseball team. Though a lively and humorous contemporary work of fiction, the narration draws heavily on LeAnne Howe's careful historical research: boarding schools for Native American children, Native American participation in the Vietnam War, and-most centrally-the story of the little-known Indian Baseball League of the late 1800s and early 1900s. LeAnne Howe, an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, is an author, playwright, and scholar. Born and educated in Oklahoma, she has read and lectured throughout the United States, Japan, and the Middle East. Her first novel, Shell Shaker, earned her a 2002 American Book Award and a Wordcraft Circle Writer of the Year in Creative Prose award. In 2004, Shell Shaker was published in French. Howe is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities award for research and a Smithsonian Native American internship for research. She has written and directed for theater, radio, and film. Her most recent film project as the narrator/host of Spiral of Fire aired on PBS in the fall of 2006. She is currently an associate professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 885641 1 9 2007 Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story total:14|5:6|4:3|3:3|2:1|1:1| 14 54 22 6 2 0 false false Fri Nov 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 20 21:03:51 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 20 21:11:32 -0800 2009 Miko Kings - the beautiful evocation of Ezol Day, a full-realized and complex Choctaw woman with a mind for the theory of relativity in 1904; the way in which Howe's words paint the intricacies of Indian Territory culture(s) in that same era; the interplay between Chi...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Dec 31 06:35:59 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 31 06:37:05 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 16 14:24:23 -0800 2007 Sat Jan 19 13:20:55 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Oct 05 10:44:22 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 10 10:59:48 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 18 10:09:25 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 18 10:10:21 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sat Oct 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Feb 21 14:26:10 -0800 2008 Sat Oct 25 11:34:12 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Fri Oct 16 08:22:32 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 08:22:39 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Oct 06 11:34:10 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 11:34:10 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Sep 12 09:08:17 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 12 09:08:17 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Jun 09 16:34:17 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 16:34:17 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Apr 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 21:44:11 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 21:45:11 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 26 06:09:23 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 03:48:41 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Feb 28 15:02:36 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 28 15:02:36 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sun Sep 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jan 16 01:05:16 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 16 01:05:36 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Oct 18 01:16:35 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 18 01:16:35 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Tue Jul 29 12:34:31 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 29 12:34:41 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Sat Jul 05 21:32:49 -0700 2008 Tue May 19 16:42:18 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Mar 31 16:31:59 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 31 16:31:59 -0700 2008 1 0 false false Sat May 31 22:08:12 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 02 11:46:35 -0800 2008 Sat May 31 22:08:12 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Tue Oct 30 18:10:02 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 30 18:10:16 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=900458