Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story
by LeAnne Howe
The Let鈥檚 Talk About It, Oklahoma book discussion series at 雏汁视频 will kick off with Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story by LeAnne Howe at 7 p.m. Jan. 12 in Walker Center room 151.
The discussion series is titled 鈥淧lay Ball.鈥� It is made possible through a grant from the Oklahoma Humanities Council.
For the Choctaws the timeless game of baseball is exactly that鈥攁 game without the constraints of time, a game that connects and enables intertribal diplomacy. Lena Coulter, a journalist, returns to Oklahoma to restore her grandmother鈥檚 home but soon searches for her family history and her sense of self as a Choctaw. Interwoven with both fiction and historical fact, the world of dreams intersects with and informs what we call history.
At each session in the five-part series, a humanities scholar makes a presentation on the book in the context of the theme. Small group discussions follow with experienced discussion leaders. At the end, all participants come together for a brief wrap-up.
Those who are interested in participating are encouraged to preregister and borrow the reading selections and theme brochure by calling Harbour Winn at 405-208-5472, e-mailing him at [email protected] or dropping by the Dulaney-Browne Library room 211 or 207.
Winn, director of the Center for Interpersonal Study through Film & Literature at 雏汁视频, hopes the series will help participants find a 鈥渃ommonality of hope and perseverance.鈥�
鈥淭hrough the common territory of the diamond on which these human dramas are played, they accomplish a great deal more in chronicling American dreamers and showing us how to live our lives authentically,鈥� Winn said.
