I prefer to read historical Native American genre. However, I also like period pieces. I just finished a novel called Wheezer And The Painted Frog soon to be ePublished. Set in 1839 immediately after the Trail of Tears. It is a mystery with the background of the Oklahoma Indian Territory occupied by the Cherokee. Sasa (Swan) a thirteen year old Cherokee girl finds herself alone after all in her family dies. She finds and saves a lost dog who she names Wheezer. He is an extremely smart dog and he soon smells a human rat, but struggles to find a way to communicate what he senses. His original owner looks desperately for him, and when he finds Sasa and Wheezer they become fast friends and soon set about solving a mystery and the reason why her five year old brother Usti Yansa (Little Buffalo) died. Together, they discover a vast network of systematic plundering of the government funds earmarked for the Cherokee. Can they discover who is at the root of it and find the culprit?