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THIS INDIAN KID
A Native American Memoir
Award-winning author Eddie Chuculate recounts his experience growing up in rural Oklahoma, from boyhood to young manhood, in an evocative and vivid voice.
"Granny was full-blooded Creek, but the Bureau of Indian Affairs insisted she was fifteen-sixteenths. She showed her card to me. I'd sit at the kitchen table and stare at her when she was eating, wondering how you can be a sixteenth of anything."
Growing up impoverished and shuttled between different households, it seemed life was bound to take a certain path for Eddie Chuculate. Despite the challenges he faced, his upbringing was rich with love and bountiful lessons from his Creek and Cherokee heritage, deep-rooted traditions he embraced even as he learned to live within the culture of white, small-town America that dominated his migratory childhood.
Award-winning author Eddie Chuculate brings his childhood to life with spare, unflinching prose. This book is at once a love letter to his Native American roots and an inspiring and essential message for young readers everywhere, who are coming of age in an era when conversations about acceptance and empathy, love and perspective are more necessary than ever before.
Eddie Chuculate is half Creek and half Cherokee. He grew up in rural towns in Oklahoma, learning the Creek language and customs and encountering racism, living with poverty, and coming of age with kids of all races. Eddie encountered challenges as a child, but grew up in a warm and supportive culture that taught him extraordinary lessons about life, community, and learning. His constants as a kid were reading, writing, and sports, and he ended up an acclaimed literary fiction author and sportswriter, with an MFA from The University of Iowa Writer's Workshop, a masters from the Institute of Indian Arts, and a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University. He received a PEN/O'Henry Award for his short story, Galveston Bay, 1826, which was praised by Ursula LeGuin, among others. He is the author of the story collection Cheyenne Madonna and a longtime newspaper reporter and copywriter, currently at the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
Growing up impoverished and shuttled between different households, it seemed life was bound to take a certain path for Eddie Chuculate. Despite the challenges he faced, his upbringing was rich with love and bountiful lessons from his Creek and Cherokee heritage, deep-rooted traditions he embraced even as he learned to live within the culture of white, small-town America that dominated his migratory childhood.
Award-winning author Eddie Chuculate brings his childhood to life with spare, unflinching prose. This book is at once a love letter to his Native American roots and an inspiring and essential message for young readers everywhere, who are coming of age in an era when conversations about acceptance and empathy, love and perspective are more necessary than ever before.
Eddie Chuculate is half Creek and half Cherokee. He grew up in rural towns in Oklahoma, learning the Creek language and customs and encountering racism, living with poverty, and coming of age with kids of all races. Eddie encountered challenges as a child, but grew up in a warm and supportive culture that taught him extraordinary lessons about life, community, and learning. His constants as a kid were reading, writing, and sports, and he ended up an acclaimed literary fiction author and sportswriter, with an MFA from The University of Iowa Writer's Workshop, a masters from the Institute of Indian Arts, and a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University. He received a PEN/O'Henry Award for his short story, Galveston Bay, 1826, which was praised by Ursula LeGuin, among others. He is the author of the story collection Cheyenne Madonna and a longtime newspaper reporter and copywriter, currently at the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
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Published 2023-09-19 by Scholastic |