A Wind River Reservation Mystery
Berkley
September 2008
On Sale: September 2, 2008
Featuring: Vicky Holden; John O’Malley
304 pages ISBN: 0425223272 EAN: 9780425223277 Paperback (reprint) Add to Wish List
The skeleton of a young woman is discovered in a dry gully
on the Wind River Reservation. Remnants of a long, black
braid are mixed with the bones. There is a bullet hole in
the skull. Forensics determine the woman was shot-to-death
in 1973.
1973, the year of AIM. The American Indian Movement had
occupied the town of Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge
Reservation. Afterward, Indians under federal indictment
had gone into hiding on other reservations, including Wind
River. A year of fear and violence, when no one could be
trusted, when anyone might be an FBI snitch.
Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley are
determined to find the identity of the forgotten woman and
see that she is laid to rest in the traditional Arapaho
Way. Their search leads them into the 1970s and the dark
underbelly of an organization that had spoken out on
behalf of Indian rights. They soon run into a wall of
silence. No one wants to talk about a time when many
crimes, including murder, went unsolved. No one wants to
admit the part they may have played, or the guilt they may
still carry. No one wants to remember a young woman
accused of being a snitch.
As the life and death of the woman begin to come into
view, Vicky and Father John realize that the killer who
has gotten away with murder for more than thirty years is
still on the reservation and that they are about to be his
next victims.
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