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A Little 'City Indian' in The 1950's: Profusely IIlustrated
City Indian a coming-of-age story, like many, rife with familial dysfunction, booze, and lust. This one is set against the back drop of the 1950's; the character, Hebe is only four and the child of an "American Indian" father and a White mother. Interracial marriage is illegal in thirty-five of the forty-eight states, and discrimination and racially-based bullying are legal and accepted practices. They wreaked havoc on families' and children's minds. Among her loving multi-racial family, she learns acceptance, but she goes into the world, to school and faces a society which labels and judges others. In following her through the next seven years in the pre-Civil rights 50's, northeast Native American myths are told. Additionally, Winchinchala has peppered in the almost extinct language, Wampanoag (Wôpanâak). At its heart, City Indian is the tale of an ordinary girl who is, in a way, every child searching for identity. She is tossed from residence to residence. All she wants to do is go back home, though she never really had one.
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A Little 'City Indian' in The 1950's: Profusely IIlustrated
City Indian a coming-of-age story, like many, rife with familial dysfunction, booze, and lust. This one is set against the back drop of the 1950's; the character, Hebe is only four and the child of an "American Indian" father and a White mother. Interracial marriage is illegal in thirty-five of the forty-eight states, and discrimination and racially-based bullying are legal and accepted practices. They wreaked havoc on families' and children's minds. Among her loving multi-racial family, she learns acceptance, but she goes into the world, to school and faces a society which labels and judges others. In following her through the next seven years in the pre-Civil rights 50's, northeast Native American myths are told. Additionally, Winchinchala has peppered in the almost extinct language, Wampanoag (Wôpanâak). At its heart, City Indian is the tale of an ordinary girl who is, in a way, every child searching for identity. She is tossed from residence to residence. All she wants to do is go back home, though she never really had one.
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A Little 'City Indian' in The 1950's: Profusely IIlustrated

A Little 'City Indian' in The 1950's: Profusely IIlustrated

A Little 'City Indian' in The 1950's: Profusely IIlustrated

A Little 'City Indian' in The 1950's: Profusely IIlustrated

Overview

City Indian a coming-of-age story, like many, rife with familial dysfunction, booze, and lust. This one is set against the back drop of the 1950's; the character, Hebe is only four and the child of an "American Indian" father and a White mother. Interracial marriage is illegal in thirty-five of the forty-eight states, and discrimination and racially-based bullying are legal and accepted practices. They wreaked havoc on families' and children's minds. Among her loving multi-racial family, she learns acceptance, but she goes into the world, to school and faces a society which labels and judges others. In following her through the next seven years in the pre-Civil rights 50's, northeast Native American myths are told. Additionally, Winchinchala has peppered in the almost extinct language, Wampanoag (Wôpanâak). At its heart, City Indian is the tale of an ordinary girl who is, in a way, every child searching for identity. She is tossed from residence to residence. All she wants to do is go back home, though she never really had one.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781889768366
Publisher: People With Wings Publishing
Publication date: 06/11/2012
Pages: 326
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.73(d)
Age Range: 14 Years

About the Author

Adjectives describing her writing are varied and positive, everything from director Oliver Stone's "tantalizing reading" to linguist David Howland's "knock out punch.": Imaginative," "erotic," "heartwarming," "thrilling," "insightful," "engaging," and more. Perhaps this is because her works are rooted in her life which can be summed up as multi-cultural, colorful, tragic and very complicated. She grew up in dysfunctional family circumstances as a Native Indian/European woman in the pre-Civil Rights, pre-Womens' Rights era of the United States. At the age of twelve, she hitch-hiked across the U.S. in the "tune in, turn on and drop out" 1960's culture of drug, sex and rock 'n roll. Then after re-relocating to Holland, she hitchhiked to Morocco to live with a tribe on the beach. She, spent time in the Hippie scene in Afghanistan and Goa before attending Columbia University to earn her BA in Anthropology and MFA in Film/Writing. She admits, "It's been a wild ride," but the craziest trip was to the dark valley of depression that almost took her life. Through it all, Winchinchala has been a writer.She does not write about herself, but she does write about dysfunction, "people being people," as she says, but Winchinchala does not write about herself. Historical fiction is her favorite, and she has written two novels of historical fiction: Hebe Jeebie about a biracial child coming of age in the Bohemian scene of the 1950's and The Life And Loves Of Mariner Jackie Vik, about the son of Norwegian immigrants, a Merchant Marine in the 1940's She was a Professor of Film, Screenwriting and English for many years; however, she has also held a few colorful jobs as a sheet-Jell-o maker in a Colorado cafeteria; a meat packer, pickled pigs feet in Boston,; a tobacco specialist at The British American Tobacco Company in Holland, and an importer/exporter. She has lived, worked or vacationed in more than two dozen countries and speaks several languages.A percentage of the profits of the books will go to a national organization focused on research, education, and treatment of depressive illness.

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