Mean Spirit (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Linda Hogan
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Magical realism
- Time of Work: 1922 and 1923
- Setting: Watona, Oklahoma
- Genres: Long fiction, Magical Realism
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Murder or homicide, Midwest, 1920’s, West, U.S., Native Americans or American Indians, Oklahoma, Oil wells or oil-well drilling
- Locales: Oklahoma, Watona, OK
Characters Discussed
Belle Graycloud, a tribal leader of the Osage people and matriarch of the Graycloud family. She lives with her family on a farm in Watona, Oklahoma, is well schooled in tribal medicine, and keeps bees. Her peaceful life is disrupted when white businessmen swindle Indians out of their oil-rich land and murder them. Belle makes a courageous stand against the local authorities at Sorrow Cave, where she protests the shooting of sacred bats by townspeople. When John Hale and his partners discover oil on her land, she is shot by Jess Gold and left for dead. She...
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