Mitch
Bushyhead - Half-Cherokee Police Chief - Buckskin,
Oklahoma
 "Fire
Carrier"
 This
book is part of Hager's Chief Bushyhead series. She is not as well
known as Hillerman, but does
the same for the Cherokee culture of Oklahoma as Hillerman does for the
Navajos in the Four Corners area. and her writing and story telling
is on par with Hillerman.
In this book,
we start with Henderson Sixkiller as he escapes from jail in order to
save his sister from her horrible marriage with a wife-beater. Meanwhile,
Chief Bushyhead and others have been trying to find who is stealthily
stealing very expensive horse tackle throughout Cherokee County.
This is tied to together with one murder and a mysterious light in the
woods of which some believe to be the return of the "fire carrier."
The story unfolds around us, with one fun night at a stomp party, as we
follow Chief Bushyhead about his business and personal life.
Hager also
writes a series featuring Molly Bearpaw, crime investigator, but I haven't
had the pleasure to read any in this series yet. (Reviewed 8-2-98)
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Bibliography (with
links to Amazon.com):
Mitch Bushyhead
Series (series is out-of-print):
Molly Bearpaw
Series:
- Ravemocker
(1992)
- The Redbird's
Cry (1994)
- Seven
Black Stones (1995)
- The
Spirit Caller (1997)
Iris House
Bed and Breakfast Series:
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Jean
Hager is a writing teacher and the author of more than 50 novels, including
three mysery series. Her mysteries concentrate on the traditional Cherokee,
mainly in the Tahlequah area. She herself is one-sixteenth Cherokee.
She lives in Tulsa Oklahoma with her husband and children. 
