KEECHIE ~ A novel by Phil Whitley

Ever since young Brian discovered his first arrowhead, he knew that he wanted to be an archaeologist. There was just something about holding an object that had been created by someone from an earlier civilization that spoke to him. He spent most of his free time exploring the area near his home at the foot of the Appalachian Mountains in rural Georgia, looking for the artifacts of this forgotten culture.

The story begins when Brian, on one of his frequent field trips, discovered an old half-breed Indian woman whose family had refused to leave during The Removal, later to be called the Trail of Tears.

Completely self-sufficient and content with her circumstances in life, Keechie teaches Brian the skills of survival, along with a love and appreciation of the natural and supernatural worlds.

By simple chance (or a result of Cosmic Intervention), meeting Keechie results in Brian’s dream of becoming an archaeologist coming true, and leads Keechie to an encounter with the descendants of her own people. It was during their first visit to the Oklahoma reservation that it was discovered that Keechie had been preserving the original strain of maize, or corn, that her ancestors had brought with them from Mexico nearly five hundred years earlier. By following the traditions taught to her by her grandmother Boo, she had returned their god to her people.

The survival skills learned from Keechie prove to be the difference between life and death many years after her death for Brian and his own family in the final chapters of this story. It begins in rural Georgia in the 1950’s – a shameful time of racial bigotry and segregation of the races, contrasted by being referred to as the “Age of Innocence”.

ISBN # 1-4137-9587-0

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