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title	:	The Last Rattlesnake Throw and Other Stories American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series ; V. 28
author	:	Salisbury, Ralph J.
publisher	:	University of Oklahoma Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0806130881
print isbn13	:	9780806130880
ebook isbn13	:	9780585146102
language	:	English
subject	United States--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction, Indians of North America--Fiction.
publication date	:	1998
lcc	:	PS3569.A4597L37 1998eb
ddc	:	813/.54
subject	:	United States--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction, Indians of North America--Fiction.

Page i The Last Rattlesnake Throw and Other Stories American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series Gerald Vizenor and Louis Owens, General Editors

Page ii Other Books by Ralph Salisbury Fiction One Indian and Two Chiefs (Tsaile, Arizona, 1994) Poetry Ghost Grapefruit and Other Poems (Ithaca, 1972) Pointing at the Rainbow: Poems of a Cherokee Heritage (Marvin, South Dakota, 1980) Spirit Beast Chant: Poems of a Cherokee Heritage (Marvin, South Dakota, 1982) A White Rainbow: Poems of a Cherokee Heritage (Marvin, South Dakota, 1982) Going to the Water: Poems of a Cherokee Heritage (Eugene, Oregon, 1983) Nonfiction Between Thunder and Lightning (Lincoln, 1987) Translations (with Lars Nordstrom and Harald Gaski) Trekways of the Wind, a Trilogy of Poems by Nils-Aslak Valkeapaa (Leaibbik, Sweden, and Tucson,1994) (with Lars Nordstrom and Harald Gaski) The Sun My Father, Poems by Nils-Aslak Valkeapaa (Leaibbik, Sweden, and Seattle, 1997)

Page iii The Last Rattlesnake Throw and Other Stories Ralph Salisbury University of Oklahoma Press: Norman

Page iv This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. The following stories have been previously published: "To Take Life, to Kill," in Dancing on the Rim of the World (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1990); "The Doctor of Doctors, a Doctor's Mother's Mother's Tale," in Chariton Review 18, no. 2 (Fall 1992): 3139; "The Head of Lincoln on a Railroad Rail," in West Coast Review 72; "Silver Bass and an Alligator Gar: A Family Reunion," in Earth Song, Sky Spirit (New York: Doubleday, 1994); ''The Last Rattlesnake Throw,'' in Red Dawn, Blue Earth (New York: Doubleday, 1996); "Hoopa, the White Deer Dance," in The Carolina Quarterly 50, no. 1 (Fall 1997): 4859. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Salisbury, Ralph J. The last rattlesnake throw and other stories / Ralph Salisbury. p. cm.(American Indian literature and critical studies series: v. 28) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-8061-3088-1 (cloth: alk. paper) 1. Indians of North AmericaSocial life and customsFiction. I. Title. II. Series. PS3569.A4597L37 1998 813'.54dc2198-17270 CIP The Last Rattlesnake Throw and Other Stories is Volume 28 in the American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series. The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources, Inc. Copyright 1998 by Ralph Salisbury. Published by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the U.S.A. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Page v To my comrade writer and wife of twenty-nine years, Ingrid Wendt; to my children, Jeff, Brian, and Martina; to my grandsons, Connor and Travis; and to all of my people, the living and the dead, with love.

Page vii If men had obeyed Thunder's sons and brought Redbird back from The Land of the Dead, there would be no death; but now, when our loved ones die, we can never bring them back.

Page ix Contents A World That Is 3 Saving Money, Saving Life: Cherokee Naming Ceremony 5 A Little Shirt-Tail Boy and a War Between Two Wars 10 To Take Life, to Kill 19 An Aqueduct of Sky 39

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