Robert J. Conley (December 29, 1940 – February 16, 2014)[1] was a Cherokee author.
In 2007, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas.
The sixth of the series, The Dark Island (1996) won the Spur Award for best Western novel in 1995.
He has also won two other Spur Awards, in 1988 for the short story "Yellow Bird", and in 1992 for the novel Nickajack.
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