Henry Mihesuah, a Comanche of the Quahada band, has led an ordinary
modern American Indian life filled with extraordinary moments.
Growing up in the 1920s and 1930s on his family's allotment outside
Duncan, Oklahoma, Mihesuah was a member of a family of farmers who
gave part of what they grew to black sharecroppers and often helped
feed their poorer white neighbors. Never afraid of controversy and
always the first to fight, Henry Mihesuah fell in love with and
married a white woman and then served a dangerous tour of duty in
the Marines in post-World War II China. In the 1950s he took a
chance and, encouraged by a federal government program, relocated
along with many other Indians to seek urban employment in
California. Barely surviving a horrific traffic accident, Mihesuah
eventually returned home to Oklahoma, where he has spent the last
few decades fighting racism and attempts to take his family's land,
eschewing local politics yet also taking many steps to reclaim and
revitalize connections to his Comanche family and culture, past and
present.
Henry Mihesuah spoke at length about his life to his
daughter-in-law, accomplished historian Devon Abbott Mihesuah, who
has carefully researched and edited those hours of conversation
into an engaging, detailed account that is at once honest,
informative, and moving. Readers come to know and respect how one
forthright Comanche man unyieldingly walks his own path in the
modern world, the ways in which events big and small have affected
him, and how, with his wife, family, land, strong opinions, and
tough choices made along the way, Henry Mihesuah leads a happy and
fulfilling life.
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