BIO
Author,
award-winning journalist, poet, book publisher, teacher/consultant /blog designer/content curator (I do have a wiki page under my name Trace DeMeyer)
I am thrilled and honored to read this post on Indigenous New England Literature !
I am thrilled and honored to read this post on Indigenous New England Literature !
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.
Her second book (co-editor) “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.
The historic book series LOST CHILDREN is in four parts:
"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.
"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.
Book 3:
“STOLEN GENERATIONS: Survivors of the Indian Adoption Projects and 60s Scoop” (Vol. 3) was published April 24, 2016.
“STOLEN GENERATIONS: Survivors of the Indian Adoption Projects and 60s Scoop” (Vol. 3) was published April 24, 2016.
Book 4:
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. The series was written for adoptees to know their own history.
American Indian
Adoptees blog (on Google Blogger) was created in late 2009 and was in the top
100 adoption blogs in 2018 (in 2020, one 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 |
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this is not the actual book cover for SLEEPS WITH KNIVES - it's white feathers |
Visit her:
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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Is this a sign?
Could this have something to do with the mysterious boom sounds happening everywhere?
And I also say: BAM. I say this in the middle of a sentence!
Something strange is happening to my head!
My LARA blog on wordpress finished up after 9 years but it's still there and you can go read all the back history and news on Indian Country and human trafficking there 🠟 https://laratracehentz.wordpress.com/
Awards:
DeMeyer has received many awards from the Native American Journalists Association (NAJA), including:
Here is an article I wrote after interviewing political prisoner Leonard Peltier:https://laratracehentz.wordpress.com/2016/08/05/parole-denied-peltier-waits-for-justice/
- Incident at Oglala: The Leonard Peltier Story (1992) is a documentary by Michael Apted about Peltier narrated by Robert Redford. The film argues in favour of the assertion that the government’s prosecution of Peltier was unjust and politically motivated.
- Thunderheart (1992) is a fictional movie by Michael Apted, partly based on Peltier’s case but with no pretense to accuracy.
MORE:
A sampling of Features I wrote for News From Indian Country: Wisconsin’s independent national Native newspaper
Lakota artist Dee Whitcomb (2004)
Narragansett award-winning Author John C. Hopkins (2003)
25th Anniversary of Wounded Knee, series of interviews (Pine Ridge, 1999)
Political Prisoner Leonard Peltier (1998,1999)
Hollywood Native Actor Joe Runningfox (1998) Apache
Grammy winner Bill Miller (1998) Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican
Native Journalist Patty Loew (1997) Bad River Anishinabe
Grammy Winner Musician Joanne Shenandoah (1998) Oneida
Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark (1997) (Incident at Oglala, Leonard Peltier)
500 Nations, 500 Years: A Forum of Tribal Sovereignty (1997)
Hollywood Lakota Actor Floyd Red Crow Westerman (1996)
My writing on this blog (and publishing new books here)
is my humble attempt to broaden perspectives about Indigenous
People/American Indians/First Nations… Thank you all for reading and
following this blog! You matter to me! xoxoxo
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