{"product_id":"chancers-9780806133881","title":"Chancers","description":"\u003cp\u003ePossessed by the demonic wiindigoo, a mythic monster, the Solar Dancers, in a gruesome ritual, sacrifice faculty and administrators associated with the collection and storage of native remains. The Dancers replace stored native skulls with those of the academics, and the resurrected natives become the Chancers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Round Dancers, humane and erotic trickster figures, are natural opponents of the morbid Solar Dancers. The war between the two groups comes to a comic conclusion at a graduation ceremony attended by Pocahontas; Phoebe Hearst; Alfred Kroeber, the anthropologist; Ishi, the native who actually lived and worked in the university museum; and many Chancers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVizenor, Gerald:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGerald Vizenor\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of American Studies and Native American Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of more than twenty books, including \u003cem\u003eGriever: An American Monkey King in China \u003c\/em\u003e(winner of the American Book Award); \u003cem\u003eDead Voices: Natural Agonies in the New World;\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eChancers: A Novel.\u003c\/em\u003e He resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Oklahoma Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50845373595922,"sku":"9780806133881","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_97778b2b-b268-4dab-865a-8d32830e7eae.jpg?v=1737349240","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/chancers-9780806133881","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}