Kill the Indian, a Killstraight story, Johnny D. Boggs
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Label
Kill the Indian, a Killstraight story, Johnny D. Boggs
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Kill the Indian
Responsibility statement
Johnny D. Boggs
Sub title
a Killstraight story
Summary
"Comanche Tribal Police Sergeant Daniel Killstraight is sent to Fort Worth, Texas, with another Indian-school educated Comanche, Charles Flint, to show off Captain Richard Pratt's Carlisle Industrial School and his theory of "Killing the Indian" to save the man -- i.e., turn the Comanches and other Indians into "white men" by assimilation. Chief Quanah Parker is in Fort Worth, too, mainly to negotiate a new lease agreement with powerful Texas ranchers who need the Comanche grasslands for their vast herds. But when a gas lamp is blown out in a hotel room, leaving one Comanche dead and Quanah in a life-or-death struggle, Daniel begins to believe that it was no accident." -- Cover verso
Target audience
adult
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