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Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $16.95
ISBN13: 9781879960787
Publisher: Aunt Lute Books
Published: Oct 1 2007
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.70
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
Miko Kings is set in Indian Territory's queen city, Ada, Oklahoma, during the baseball fever of 1907, but moves back and forth from 1969 during the Vietnam War to present-day Ada. The story focuses on an Indian baseball team but brings a new understanding to the term America's favorite pastime. For tribes in Indian Territory, baseball was an extension of a sport they'd been playing for centuries before their forced removal to Indian Territory. In this lively and humorous work of fiction informed by careful historical research, LeAnne Howe weaves original and fictive documents such as newspaper clippings, photographs, typewritten letters, and handwritten journal entries into the narrative.
LeAnne Howe's Miko Kings is an incredible act of recovery: baseball, a sport jealously guarded by mainstream Anglo culture, is also rooted in Native American history and territory. The irony behind its status as the all-American pastime is not lost on Howe as she weaves these compelling stories and narratives to expose the political games of the 20th century that Native Americans learned to play for resistance and survival. -- Rigoberto González, author of So Often the Pitcher Goes to Water Until It Breaks and Butterfly Boy
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