Mardi Oakley Medawar (born 1945) is an American novelist. Her novels mostly centre on
Kiowa
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and
Crow tribes, and are usually within the
mystery
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Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional characters
*Mystery, a cat character in ''Emily the Strange''
Films
* ''Mystery'' (2012 film), a 2012 Chinese drama film
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genre.
Personal life
Medawar was born in
Olla, Louisiana
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Olla has a federally recognized downtown Historic District and a Louisiana historic marker. The population was 1,3 ...
in 1945, the daughter of a
Eastern Band Cherokee
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father and a French Louisianan mother.
She attended San Diego State University and taught writing at several colleges.
As of 2012, she lives on the
Red Cliff Chippewa Reservation. She has described herself as an "Intertribalist".
Novels
* ''The Ft. Larned Incident'' (2000).
* ''Murder at Medicine Lodge'' (1999).
* ''Remembering the Osage Kid'' (1999).
* ''The Misty Hills Of Home'' (1998).
* ''Witch of the Palo Duro'' (1997).
* ''Death at Rainy Mountain'', (1996).
* ''People of the Whistling Waters'' (1993).
Awards
*''People of the Whistling Waters'', Medicine Pipe Bearer's Award for Best First Novel (Spur Awards sponsored by
Western Writers of America
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, 1993).
* Prose Fiction Writer of the Year Award (Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers, 1998)
See also
*
Native American studies
References
1945 births
20th-century American novelists
21st-century American novelists
American women novelists
Living people
20th-century American women writers
21st-century American women writers
American people of French descent
People from LaSalle Parish, Louisiana
Writers of Native American crime fiction
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