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Sundown Paperback – September 15, 1988

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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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University of Oklahoma Press
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September 15, 1988
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5.25 x 0.66 x 8 inches
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0806121602
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978-0806121604
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John Joseph Mathews, who died in 1979, was one of Oklahoma's genuinely gifted writers. He was the author of Wah' Kon-Tah: The Osage and the White Man's Road, a poetic description in prose of the spiritual life of the Indian, and a Book-of the-Month Club selection in 1932. His other books include Life and Death of an Oilman: The Career of E. W. Marland (1951), about the controversial governor of Oklahoma and the founder of the company that later became known as Conoco, and The Osages: Children of the Middle Waters (1961), a narrative history of his tribe. Talking to the Moon was first published in 1945 and is reissued with a foreword by Elizabeth Mathews, his widow. Mathews was the great-grandson of Old Bill Williams, a noted frontiersman, and was a mixed-blood Osage. For many years he served as a member of the Osage Tribal Council. Educated at the University of Oklahoma in geology and at Merton College, Oxford, where he took his degree in natural sciences, Mathews was a fine American blend of scientist and poet, philosopher and producer, historian and storyteller, Indian and white.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Oklahoma Press; Reprint edition (September 15, 1988)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 329 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0806121602
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0806121604
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.5 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 0.66 x 8 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #280,300 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #330 in Native American Demographic Studies
- #610 in Native American Literature (Books)
- #18,018 in Historical Fiction (Books)

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This text was an assigned reading for a course and was one to which I was not looking forward. However, after getting passed the inital first pages, I couldn't put this book down! While the plot is common amongst other pieces of Native American literature, this book has a lot of insight to offer. The protagonist, Chal, can be hard to get along with sometimes, but his character is fitting for the text. I learned a lot from this novel and its an eye-opener, not just to Native American literature, but to American literature in general. It does make you question, what is American?

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Michael McNamara

Delivered on time, book in the correct condition, thank you. Well done. As student this was very helpful to get me prepared for

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Delivered on time, book in the correct condition, thank you. Well done. As student this was very helpful to get me prepared for class. Once again, thank you. I really enjoyed the book, it was a good lens from which to look at Native American experiences at the time, (though it is a fiction book). As a Bildungsroman, it did a good job tracking the character of Chal through his young life. Chal may not speak much, but the book speaks volumes.

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A mixed-blood Osage Indian trying to grow up in both worlds.

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In this book, the fictional protagonist essentially describes the authors life, according to his daughter who wrote the introduction. Struggling to be successful in the white man's world, a mixed-blood Osage Indian is really only comfortable back home on the reservation. Never feeling at home in either, he often feels isolated in both. The book follows him from boyhood on the reservation to college and military life beyond, but always returning home.
This book is an absorbing read, and is notable for being one of the first books to examine this topic intelligently. It is devoid of romanticism or New Age allusions (illusions?), but is not the inevitable sinking despair of a James Welch read. I strongly recommend it for anyone with an interest in mixed-culture and heritage topics.
John Joseph Mathew was probably the most influential Osage Indian writer yet born. A World War I Army Air Corps pilot, he was Oxford educated as a geologist, travelled the world, especially Africa, yet came back to the Osage hills in Oklahoma to be "home". He was not a "full-blood" Osage, but was a "mixed-blood" of Osage and Caucasian heritage.
In his era, it was this mixed heritage that probably allowed him to be as educated as he was. This was invaluable in his later writing career, because his books are both poetic in style and writing, capturing much of the feel of our Osage oral history and home, yet scholarly in their documentation. He wrote the first best-seller by a Native American author (Wah-Kon-Tah: the Osage and the White-Man's Road)published in 1932. Following this, he wrote a history of our tribe, (The Osages, Children of the Middle Waters) which while controversial in some aspects, is the most complete written history we have yet. He also wrote on topics of naturalism and his personal views on many topics, and a biography of an oilman, both of more or less relation to the tribe.
But in none of these books to we get a real flavor of how he *felt* about things, and the experiences that molded him. In this book, Sundown, we see an intimate personal, often painful look at a younger Mathews. This, along with Mathews' prose syle is why I recommend the book.

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