Description: "Robert J. Conley is in the ranks of N. Scott Momaday, Louise Erdrich, James Welch, and W.P. Kinsella as an interpreter of many facets of the Native American experience." -Fort Worth Star-Telegram As a young man, George Panther was taught the healing arts by his grandfather. Now a respected medicine man within the Cherokee Nation, he has been entrusted with an obligation to serve his people, helping them achieve good fortune and protecting them from harm. But a black-clad stranger has recently arrived in the territory. He too has a talent for making medicine-bad medicine. Cursed by the stranger, thrust into a confrontation beyond his control, George is forced to kill a white man-a crime the United States cannot allow to be tried on Cherokee soil. Now, knowing he'll never receive a fair trial in the white man's courts, George must use all of his medicine to elude U.S. marshals and wage war against an unforgiving enemy who wields power beyond his imagining

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