Meet KU's Authors: Devon Mihesuah

In Blood Relay, when an Oklahoma City detective and her partner investigate the disappearance of a women’s Indian Horse Relay rider, they uncover a plot that runs far deeper than a single missing person. This work of fiction is woven with the real-world crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and the tangled jurisdictional lines between federal, state, and tribal law enforcement. Author Devon Mihesuah is an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation, a historian and writer, and a previous editor of the American Indian Quarterly. She is the Cora Lee Beers Price Teaching Professor in International Cultural Understanding at the University of Kansas and scholar in residence at the Hall Center for the Humanities. Mihesuah has written extensively on co