The author of Wah'Kon-Tah has told the story of Chal Windzer, part
Osage Indian, part white, and the pull of the different strains in
his make-up. The scene is laid in Indian Territory at an Osage
Indian agency, and the story takes Chal through school, to a
co-educational college, to the training field for aviators during
the war, in which period he becomes himself an instructor but does
not get overseas. The Indians grow rich when oil is discovered on
the poverty striken territory allotted them by Washington. But
there is little or no propaganda for or against the white
domination, little commentary on the treatment accorded the
Indians. Taciturn, inarticulate, a romantic - he finds human
contacts difficult, and drifting only too easy. Authentic, but one
wishes it had gone deeper into the problem. (Kirkus Reviews)
Challenge Windzer, the mixed-blood protagonist of this
compelling autobiographical novel, was born at the beginning of the
twentieth century "when the god of the great Osages was still
dominate over the wild prairie and the blackjack hills" of
northeast Oklahoma Territory. Named by his father to be "a
challenge to the disinheritors of his people," Windzer finds it
hard to fulfill his destiny, despite oil money, a university
education, and the opportunities presented by the Great War and the
roaring twenties. Critics have praised "Sundown" generously, both
as a literary work and a vignette into the Native American
past.
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