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Okla Hannali

This book is a tale of Hannali Innominee, a 'Mingo' or natural lord of the 19th-century Choctaw Indian and a capacious, indomitable giant of the ilk of Paul Bunyan....Lafferty tells it straight: how the Choctaw nation, once removed, reconstituted itself and thrived in Indian territory...., how there came a schism between the rich, part-white, slave-owning, moneylending Choctaws and the 'feudal, compassionate, chauvinistic' full-blooded freeholders like Hannali; and how, during the Civil War, the Indians were manipulated divide-and-conquer fashion in helping destroy each other
Print Book, English, 1972
Doubleday, Garden City, N.Y., 1972