By Tony Choate, Media Relations Specialist
Chickasaw Nation Media Relations Office

Ada, Oklahoma, July 7, 2009 – Chickasaw Press is proud to announce its first book release for 2009, Chickasaw Lives Volume Two: Profiles and Oral Histories by Richard Green. Mr. Green will be the featured guest for a special event taking place on July 25, 2009 at Full Circle Bookstore in Oklahoma City.

He will be signing copies of his book from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. For additional information, please contact Full Circle Bookstore at (405) 842-2900 or via e-mail at customerservice@fullcirclebooks.com. They are located on the northeast corner of the first level of 50 Penn Place, 1900 Northwest Expressway, in northwest Oklahoma City.

When Richard Green was named Tribal Historian of the Chickasaw Nation in 1994, one of his first tasks was to interview individual Chickasaws and write about their life stories. Chickasaw Lives, Volume Two is a unique compilation of that work. The second in a series of three volumes to be published, this book contains 32 articles that focus on tribal members, including extraordinary performers, artists, athletes and warriors. These Chickasaw luminaries include an Olympic gold medalist, a recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor, a Chickasaw Nation attorney general who previously rode with the notorious outlaw Billy the Kid, an internationally renowned performance artist, a Harvard researcher who investigates and reports on economic conditions in Indian Country and three successive Chickasaw governors who played crucial roles in the twentieth-century revitalization of the tribe.

Chickasaw Lives Volume Two: Profiles and Oral Histories is available through Chickasaw Press at http://www.chickasawpress.com/ and the University of Oklahoma Press, http://www.oupress.com/.