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Aging hippies John Brader and his wife Joanie travel from New York to
Oklahoma in search of John’s Native American roots and find a twisted
family tale of cruelty, greed, hallucinogenic Indian medicines, and
lost wealth. In Oklahoma, John discovers he is the sole heir of his
grandfather’s oil lands, which sends him looking for his grandfather’s
lost deeds. The family story begins in the early nineteenth century,
when the tribe was forced-marched on the infamous Trail of Tears from
its lands in Mississippi to Indian Territory, now Oklahoma, and ends
sometime in the future. John Brader discovers his family was capable
of great cruelty, such as burying alive an enslaved African woman and
scalping of African-American Union troops during the Civil War. He
also finds that his grandfather was gay and, in a secret ceremony,
married to a famous tribal evangelist. Choctaw hallucinogenic
medicines haunt the family causing murder, sexual perversions, and
paranoiac fears of slave revolts. Weaving together satire, historical
time and place, and family drama, the story opens up multiple and
unique ways of seeing history, racism, religious zeal, and American
culture.
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