Document of Expectations (American Indian Studies) - Softcover

Devon Abbott Mihesuah (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1611860113 ISBN 13: 9781611860115

Publisher: Michigan State University Press, 2011

Synopsis

When Hopi/White Mountain Apache anthropologist Tony M. Smokerise is found murdered in his office at Central Highlands University, the task of solving the crime falls to jaded Choctaw detective Monique Blue Hawk and her partner Charles T. Clarke. A seemingly tolerant and amicable office of higher education, the university, Monique soon learns, harbors parties determined to destroy the careers of Tony and his best friend, the volatile Oglala anthropologist Roxanne Badger. In the course of her investigation, Monique discovers that the scholars who control Tony’s department are also overseeing the excavation of a centuries-old tribal burial site that was uncovered during the construction of a freeway. Tony’s role in the project, she realizes, might be the key to identifying his murderer. This virtuosic mystery novel explores, in engrossing detail, the complex motives for a killing within the sometimes furtive and hermetic setting of academia.

About this title

About the Author

Devon Abbott Mihesuah is the Cora Lee Beers Price Professor at the University of Kansas. She is a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, the author of more than a dozen award-winning books, and a former editor of the American Indian Quarterly.

Edition details

• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1611860113
• ISBN 13: 9781611860115
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 202