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The Death of Bernadette Lefthand.(Brief Article)

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| June 28, 1993 | (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Ron Querry. Red Crane (826 Camino de Monte Rey, Santa Fe, N.M. 87501), $12.95 ISBN 1-878610-29-5; cloth $22.95 -25-2

Querry, a Choctaw, chooses Arizona, his present home, as the setting for this excellent first novel. It is a landscape peopled by Natives, where Navajo, Apache and Hopi reservations jostle up against one another, literally and figuratively. The book deals with the murder of its eponymous heroine. In the process it becomes a fine vignette of modern Indian existence, giving readers a genuinely felt view of the powwows, dances, rodeos, alcoholism, intertribal rivalry and poverty that are the facts of life for many Native Americans. At the …

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