Defying her family to be with the man she loves, a beautiful Native American makes the fateful decision to marry into the brawling, hell-raising Osage clan. Over three decades, the two will themselves fight to make a place of their own amid an Oklahoma landscape of dust and oil rigs. Through the good and bad times, and through the strength of their five sons, this remarkable family will gain courage from their age-old traditions...and hold passionately onto the rugged land they call home.

Compares to national bestselling author Louise Erdrich
People of the Whistling Waters won the 1994 Western Writers of America'sMedicine Pipe Bearer's Award for Best Novel
Medawar is the acclaimed author of the Tay-bodal Indian mystery series
Medawar is also the author of Remembering the Osage Kid and Death at Rainy Mountain
The author's Native American ancestry lends authenticity to this novel
Native American themes in contemporary fiction are more popular than ever
Set in Oklahoma in the early twentieth century