The Bone Picker: Native Stories, Alternate Histories

by Devon A. Mihesuah

Under the shadow of gray clouds, three children venture into the woods, where they spot the corpse of an old man on a scaffold. Suddenly a wild figure emerges, with long fingernails and tangled hair. It is the Hattak fullih nipi foni, the bone picker, who comes to tear off rotting flesh with his fingernails. Only the Choctaws who adhere to the old ways will speak of him.

The frightening bone picker is just one of many entities,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806194677
• ISBN13: 9780806194677
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 178 Pages