Robert J. Conley

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Robert J. Conley (1940-) is a Cherokee author living in Norman,OK. He is noted for depictions of the old West from the Native American perspective. He is known for a series of books called the Real People Series. The sixth of the series, The Dark Island (1996) won the Spur Award for best Western novel in 1995. He has also won two other Spur Awards, in 1988 for the short story Yellow Bird, and in 1992 for the novel Nickajack.

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Kratzert, M. "Native American Literature: Expanding the Canon", Collection Building Vol. 17, 1, 1998, p. 4