Miko Kings

Ezol has not visited Lena in three months. In the meantime, however, Lena has done much of her own research based on the notes that Ezol left her. She found material about the “The Four Mothers Society [, which] was an organization against allotment made up of the largest southeastern tribes, the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Cherokee” (126). The Day family were supportive of the group, hosting meetings for them at their stickball and baseball games.

After combing through many articles and papers, Lena decides to finally turn to the one document that contains Ezol’s own account of the Miko Kings: her private journal. She takes the ribbon off the journal and delicately begins to read its contents.

The journal includes entries dating from March 1888 to 1907 at the Good Land Indian Orphanage, when Ezol was a young woman attending the games of the Miko Kings. The contents of the journal contain several clues to the past. First is a haunting picture of an eye tree, which contains seven eyes. Another is an equation that Ezol quotes many times in the book. She writes, “My mother plus my father equals 4, accounting for my sister and me.