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Wil Usdi

Thoughts from the Asylum, a Cherokee Novella

Wil Usdi( )
Author: Conley, Robert J.
Foreword by: Wilson, Luther
Series title:American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Ser.
ISBN:978-0-8061-4659-1
Publication Date:Feb 2015
Publisher:University of Oklahoma Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $14.95
Book Description:

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...
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Book Details
Pages:160
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Historical / General
Fiction / Native American
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5 x 8.5 x 0.46 Inches
Book Weight:0.37 Pounds
Author Biography
Conley, Robert J. (Author)


Robert J. Conley was born in 1940 in Cushing Oklahoma. He is a Cherokee author and enrolled member of the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians, a federally recognized tribe of American Indians. He is noted for depictions of precontact and historical Cherokee figures. He is known for a series of books called the Real People Series. The sixth of the series, The Dark Island (1996) won the Spur Award for best Western novel in 1995. He has also won two other Spur Awards, in 1988 for the short story "Yellow Bird", and in 1992 for the novel Nickajack. In 2007, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas.

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