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Author, award-winning journalist, poet, book publisher, teacher/consultant /blog designer
Author, award-winning journalist, poet, book publisher, teacher/consultant /blog designer
Trace Lara Hentz
is the author of “ONE SMALL SACRIFICE: A Memoir,” about the history of the
Indian Adoption Project and Indian Child Welfare Act; this includes her journey
to find her natural father and tribal relatives.
The second book “TWO WORLDS:
Lost Children of the Indian Adoption Projects” was published in 2012 and a
second edition in 2017, that includes narratives from First Nations and
American Indian adoptees who are called the STOLEN GENERATIONS.
"CALLED HOME: Book 2: Lost Children of
the Indian Adoption Projects" was published in June 2014. Fifty
narratives cover personal history and the historic case of Baby Veronica, and much more.
The second edition of CALLED HOME: The
ROADMAP (Vol. 2) came out in 2016.
“STOLEN GENERATIONS: Survivors of the Indian
Adoption Projects and 60s Scoop” (Vol. 3) was published April 24, 2016.
The
fourth book in the series “IN THE VEINS, POETRY” (Vol. 4) came out in 2017.
The book series is used in universities in
the US and Canada.
American Indian
Adoptees blog (on Google Blogger) was created in late 2009 and was in the top
100 adoption blogs in 2018 (3/4 million views): http://blog.americanindianadoptees.com/
In January 2011,
Hentz began to blog and write about her journey, her memoir, relevant news and
the book series Lost Children of the Indian Adoption Projects, on WORDPRESS: LARA www.laratracehentz.wordpress.com
In November
2011, Trace founded BLUE HAND BOOKS, a collective publishing
company for Native American writers, where new writers find new audiences.
Trace has published several books by others including Pointing with Lips, Writer
on the Storm, and Finding Balance. The
website she created: www.bluehandbooks.org
Starting
in 2012, Trace taught workshops on SOCIAL MEDIA 101 (the top social media
websites) and INTRODUCTION TO Google BLOGGER at Greenfield Community College in
the Adult Learning Division. In 2015 she
created and taught a new course WORDPRESS 101, also for GCC. In each class, students would create an
individual blog; each were provided links to a student blog with class notes
and blog tips; and each student received printed handouts on templates, WP
terminology, and links to online tutorials.
Trace
consults and has helped several people set up a wordpress blog, including a New
York filmmaker, a farm project in Oklahoma, two new authors and a local Farmers
coop to create their own blog/website using Wordpress.com (the free format).
Trace's
writing and interviews have been published in newspapers and journals in the
USA, Canada and Europe. She’s
a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Superior (BFA 1978), and have
numerous news and feature writing awards.
Since 2004, she’s a full-time blogger-writer, living
in western Massachusetts with her husband, Herbert Hentz, former Admission
Director, now-retired from Greenfield Community College. (Trace has Shawnee-Cherokee-French
Canadian-Euro ancestry.)
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| NEW TWIN Creative non-fiction book out in December 02018 |
Please
see CV for additional information
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Earlier interviews:
I read excerpts of One Small Sacrifice live on Blog Talk Radio August 13, 2011:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/firetalkproduction/2011/08/14/one-small-sacrifice-read-by-trace-a-demeyer
My interview with Hidden from History on August 20, 2011: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/hiddenfromhistory/2011/08/20/hiddenfromhistory-with-kevin-annett
Here is an interview from September 25, 2011 with Nell, Russ and David and my co-author Patricia: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/firetalkproduction/2011/09/25/the-other-side-of-adoption-with-trace-a-demeyer
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