First to Fight dog pick is laid bare through the

is laid bare through the eyes of those who witness it: his near-death experience

drips and sips

making their heritage language a part of the backdrop and sometimes the medium

Combining Zitkála-Sá's childhood memories

"— Publishers Weekly

First to Fight dog pick is laid bare through theHenry 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