Stacey's Story

This fictional work by the Mexican-American/Oglala Sioux writer Robert L. Perea won the bestfirst novel award at the "Returning the Gift"Conference of Native American writers inOklahoma City in 1992. It tells the story of adesperate young mother, her Indian boy friend, and a baby girl-and of the growing, intuitiverelationsh1p between the man, Bob, and the littlegirl, Stacey, until the child is finally taken away from the mother and sent East to live withrelatives.