Anompolichi

The Wordmaster
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When Chickasaw wordmaster Iskifa Ahalopa discovers a shipwrecked Scotsman and his cargo, the king’s goat, washed up on the eastern coast of North America in 1399, he does what any language specialist would do. He sets out in search of someone who can understand the white man’s words. But the trio are quickly plunged into a web of intrigue and danger as they find themselves pitted against a tribal leader intent on dominating the continent. Author Phillip Carroll Morgan takes readers on an adventure in this captivating piece of First American fiction.

About the Author
Author

Phillip Carroll Morgan (Choctaw/Chickasaw) is an award-winning author of several Chickasaw Press and White Dog Press titles, including Chickasaw Renaissance, Riding Out the Storm: 19th Century Chickasaw Governors and Their Intellectual Legacy, which won the Gold Independent Publishers Book Award in 2014, and the Anompolichi series of books. He is also the co-author of Dynamic Chickasaw Women which won the Gold Independent Publishers Book Award in 2012. Poetry by Morgan appears in The Fork-in-the-Road Indian Poetry Store, which won the
Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas First Book Award for Poetry in 2002. He also co-authored Reasoning Together: The Native Critics Collective, a conversation between leading experts in Native American literature. He holds a master’s degree and a doctorate in Native American literature from the University of Oklahoma. Dynamic Chickasaw Women won the Independent Publishers Book Awards’ Gold Medal for Mid-West Regional Non-Fiction in 2012, and Riding Out the Storm won the Gold Medal in that category in 2014. Poetry by Morgan appears in The Fork-in-the-Road Indian Poetry Store, which won the Native Writers Circle of the Americas First Book Award for Poetry in 2002. He also co-authored Reasoning Together: The Native Critics Collective, a conversation between leading experts in Native American literature. He holds a master’s degree and a doctorate in Native American literature from the University of Oklahoma.

Awards
The American Advertising Award
Book Details
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9781935684169
Weight: 1.0 lb
Publisher: White Dog Press
Publication date: 2014-10-01
Dimensions: 9(l) x 6(w) x 1(d)
BISAC 1: FIC137000
BISAC 2: FIC059050
BISAC 3: FIC002000