That was the night that a helluva lot of things happened, including Flap's awful fight with the bulldozer. There was this terrible racket from someplace way off that wouldn't stop. And we had a lot of booze at The Place. And little Loueena was real sick. And Flapping Eagle finally got mad and busted Mr. Storekeep in the nose and knocked him ass-over-teakettle out the window. The window was shut at the time. When he realized he hadn't been too polite, Flap opened the window, which seemed a little unnecessary,.and he kindly helped Mr. Storekeep back inside.

The book actually got a number good reviews, including one from the New York Times. But so much hell was raised over the film -- despite a heavyweight cast that included Anthony Quinn, Shelley Winters and director Carol Reed, along with a theme song written by Marvin Hamlisch and performed by Kenny Rogers and the First Edition -- that the studio changed the name TWICE, first to "Flapping Eagle" and then to "Flap." After that, the movie was buried.

Despite the name, the book is extremely supportive of the civil rights of American Indians.

There are very few books I've read more than once.
~Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
~One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
~Neighbors by Thomas Berger
~Jerusalem Poker by Edward Whittemore

Plus, regardless of any perveived racial slurs in the title, this one.
The booka nd movie get a bad rap from the press but of course,
they are blinded by their own ignoarrogance. ( )