... absorbing.

Illuminating a little-known aspect of American history, this book will especially appeal to those interested in the history of Indigenous and Black Americans..

... in illuminating look at racial dynamics within Creek Nation.

With a narrative framed by the story of a Black Creek leader named Cow Tom, Gayle ably (if sometimes repetitively) examines the idea that identity can be multifaceted—in this case, that the same Black person 'could be simultaneously free, never enslaved, and fully Creek'.

Gayle, drawing on his experience of growing up Black in Oklahoma, offers an account that celebrates African American success.