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title	:	Bone Game : A Novel American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series ; V. 10
author	:	Owens, Louis.
publisher	:	University of Oklahoma Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0806128410
print isbn13	:	9780806128412
ebook isbn13	:	9780806171005
language	:	English
subject	Santa Cruz (Calif.)--Fiction, Detective and mystery stories.
publication date	:	1994
lcc	:	PS3565.W567B66 1994eb
ddc	:	813/.54
subject	:	Santa Cruz (Calif.)--Fiction, Detective and mystery stories.

Page i American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series Gerald Vizenor, General Editor

Page iii Bone Game

Page iv Also By Louis Owens (with Tom Colonnese) American Indian Novelists: An Annotated Critical Bibliography (Baltimore, 1985) Wolfsong (Albuquerque, 1991) The Sharpest Sight (Norman, 1992) Other Destinies: Understanding the American Indian Novel (Norman, 1992)

Page v Bone Game A Novel by Louis Owens University of Oklahoma Press Norman and London

Page vi Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Owens, Louis. Bone game: a novel / by Louis Owens. p. cm. (American Indian literature and critical studies series; v. 10.) ISBN 0-8061-2664-7 (alk. paper) I. Title. II. Series. PS3565.W567B66 1994 813'.54dc2094-13882 CIP Bone Game: A Novel is Volume 10 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 1994 by Louis Owens. 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 vii In memory of Ida Brown, who knew dreams

Page 3 October 15, 1812. Government Surgeon Manuel Quijano, accompanied by six armed men, is dispatched from the presidio in Monterey with orders to exhume the body of Padre Andrs Quintana at the mission of Santa Cruz, La Exaltacin de la Santa Cruz. The priest is found to have been murdered, tortured in pudendis, and hanged. November 1, 1993. The dismembered body of a young woman begins washing ashore on the beaches of Santa Cruz, California.

Page 4 Children. Nefitos. Bestes. And still it is the same sky, the same night arched like a reed house, the stars of their birth.

Page 5 One The redwoods are thick with shadow, and an owl calls somewhere in the high canopy. Down the canyon a stream falls. He dreams the deep curve of the bay, the slant of sky. Black meets white in a line down the forehead, dividing broad nose, lips, wide chin, thick on the long, ropy hair, black and white even to the knot of hair on top and continuing down, dividing bare chest, arms, groin, one leg white, one black, one foot white, one black where he crouches. The hands are held outright from flexed elbows, fists tight, eyes dark and unblinking. Around him the redwoods rise straight and hard to the sky. Arms extended, he beckons with lips and begins, head nodding in time to the song, hands weaving, wavering, hawks in flight, woodpecker dive, gut-pulling on the shadows. And down the steep coast streams dance and sing, the sweep of god in their unspoiled throat. It is the bone game. He awakens and dreams again, crouching there. "Bestes." The orchard is a reek of shadows and he sees them, the Indians. "Padre Quintana!" they call, and twice he turns back, but he comes to them, and they hang him there. "Gente de razn," they mock in his foreign tongue and tuck

Page 6 him into bed and kill him once more. ''Los padres eran muy crueles con los indios.'' They dance and whirl and copulate through the night, as he knew they would. The mountains cup the bay in biblical darkness, and he feels the ghosts of ancient forests. The earth frets and cries in her sleep. White men come and murder the great trees, bleeding them into rich men's homes, and Christ walking on water is not enough, never raising the dead sacrificed for such sins. He feels the burden of his lives, the necessary deaths that stretch behind and before him. Otherwise the earth will shake us from her dreams.

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