Real Native Genius: How an Ex-Slave and a White Mormon Became Famous Indians. By Angela Pulley Hudson.

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Real Native Genius: How an Ex-Slave and a White Mormon Became Famous Indians . By Angela Pulley Hudson. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. xiii + 255 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95, paper.) Sometimes an author produces work of such cultural insight and creative research that it demands special notice. That historian is Angela Pulley Hudson and that book is Real Native Genius. Hudson traces the single and intertwined strands of the extraordinary lives of a Mississippi freedman, Warner McCary, and a deeply religious Mormon woman, Lucile Stanton. She skillfully follows the history of these individuals, providing the extensive available evidence where possible. The two concocted much of the historical evidence of their … linda.reese1{at}cox.net