FICTION: Through a dozen narrators, Oscar Hokeah's debut novel traces the life of Ever Geimausaddle and the Kiowa-Cherokee community that helps raise him.

Ever Geimausaddle, a young man with mixed Kiowa, Cherokee, and Mexican heritage, is at the center of Oscar Hokeah’s affecting novel Calling for a Blanket Dance. Moving between the voices of Ever and ...

Oscar Hokeah has spent almost 20 years working with at-risk Native American youth. He brings that experience and his own growing up as a citizen of Cherokee Nation and the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma to ...

"Calling for a Blanket Dance" by Oscar Hokeah; Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill (272 pages, $26.95) Oscar Hokeah's accomplished debut, "Calling for a Blanket Dance," at first seems mired in tragedy as ...