But racism against Indians requires her to have a white sponsor to hold her monies. The police aren’t real concerned about a hundred year old murder case, but Rowan is.ġ920s Will is white enough to attend the white school, but his detractors call him “half-breed.” His Osage mother has oil rights to Maple Ridge plus she’s inherited 2 other portions. That’s the background story.Īlternating voices take us back to Rowan who slips a mildewed wallet from a scrap of pocket off the skeleton before her mother calls the police. If you know your race riot history, you know Memorial Day weekend began the worst race riot of the nation, when white people burned 35 blocks of black Greenwood. In 1921, Greenwood was the wealthiest black neighborhood in the nation. In defense, Clarence pushes Will who falls and breaks his wrist. His manly pride injured, Will goes racist haywire on the black man, Clarence. It’s Prohibition, which doesn’t stop anyone from drinking, and Will is stumbling drunk. Sincere and ignorant Will sees Addie at a speakeasy with a handsome young black man. Will Tillman, 17, son of a white shop-owner and full-blooded Osage Indian mother, is in love with Addie, the prettiest girl at school, in 1921 Tulsa. Rowan Chase, 17, the daughter of a white oil magnate father and a black lawyer mother finds a skeleton under the floorboards in the “back house” of her spiffy Greenwood area Tulsa home in “Dreamland Burning” (Little Brown 2017) by Tulsa resident Jennifer Latham.
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