
Winner of the 2002 American Book Award Why was Red Shoes, the most formidable Choctaw warrior of the 18th century, assassinated by his own people? Why does his death haunt Auda Billy, an Oklahoma Choctaw woman, accused in 1991 of murdering Choctaw Chief Redford...

As the Billys fight to save their Choctaw community, a 250-year-old history plays itself out again.