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This 6 page paper analyzes the book “Miko Kings” by LeAnne Howe, and particularly the importance of baseball to the Native Americans in the novel. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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1907, where a Native American baseball team called the "Miko Kings" played against their rivals, the "Seventh Cavalrymen." This paper analyzes the novel and in particular, the importance of baseball
to Native Americans. Discussion The Miko Kings are a team unlike any were familiar with in baseball today; the players dont have names like Babe Ruth or Jackie Robinson; instead
they are "Albert Batteries Goingsnake, Isom Joel, Lucius Mummy and Hope Little Leader" (Meland, 2007). These men are "all Oklahoma Indians of various heritages-Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek and Seminole" (Meland,
2007). The novel is the story of Native baseball as played in the pre-statehood Oklahoma and Indian Territories (Meland, 2007). The game of baseball as we know it had been
played by Native Americans in one form or another for centuries (Meland, 2007). Hope Little Leader pitches as a means to escape from boarding school, and a reader
can understand that, since it is analogous to many young people from poor neighborhoods trying to use sports to escape to a better life (Meland, 2007). But his is not
the pivotal position in the story; that belongs to the ghost Ezol Day, whose "stories, drawings and thoughts are found by Lena coulter during the summer of 2006, hidden in
the walls of Lenas grandmothers house" (Meland, 2007). The spirit of Ezol begins to come to Lena at night, so that she can "write down her thoughts on the relation
of time to language and baseball to Indians" (Meland, 2007). Lena has run across information about an organization called the "Miko Kings," but she cant track down much about them
except the name (Howe, 2006). She finds a photo of the team with the players names on it and tries to find out who they are, but that too is
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