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  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Hentz releases new creative non-fiction Greenfield, Massachusetts [2018]   --   “There is a clear sense of urgency in my new book, on a vast variety of topics ” said Blue Hand Books founder and award winning journalist Trace L Hentz, author of   Mental Midgets| Musqonocihte “It’s a Miracle We’ve Survived This Far,” (ISBN: 9781731074010 , Publisher: Blue Indians Books, Massachusetts).   “It’s quite clear we are distressed with changes all around us, and it’s gone global,” Hentz explained.   “John Trudell said it best in an interview I share in the book. ‘ The answer is NON-COOPERATION and a clear coherent thinking human being…”  Trudell didn’t waste words. Neither does Hentz. She describes t his twin book as a collection of factoids, thoughts, quips, code, quotes, photos, thought bombs, creative non-fiction, Native American history and prose. And it’s short (91 pages).   Musqonichte translates ...

Charles Grolla's Ojibwe name is Ogimaagiizhig (Boss of the Sky) and he is of the Adik (Caribou) clan or totem.  He is an enrolled member of the Bois Forte reservation in Minnesota and was raised mainly on the Red Lake reservation in Minnesota.  While growing up in the Bikwaakwaang (West End) area of the Red Lake reservation, Charles became a contending player of Ojibwe style moccasin game before the age of 14.  Charles graduated from Red Lake High School and completed his Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice with a minor in Ojibwe Language at Bemidji State University.  Retiring after 17 years of service from the Red Lake Police Department, first as a police officer then as a conservation officer, he started a new career and is currently a teacher at Cass Lake – Bena High School where he teaches Ojibwe language, culture, and moccasin game. Charles is a lifetime hunter, trapper, fisherman, and moccasin game player.  As a child, besides moccasin ga...

Sleeps With Knives: Has It Hit You Yet + special essay: EBOOK out today https://t.co/rc04hBdDdw via @amazon @StonePony33 — Trace kalala Hentz (@StonePony33) October 5, 2019 LISTEN TO A NEW INTERVIEW new ebook and paperback Trace is still writing! And a cancer survivor! EBAY - new paperback Are you read to publish a new book? Email her: bluehandcollective@outlook.com HER NEW WEBSITE: https://blog.tracehentz.com/    Trace L. Hentz (formerly DeMeyer) is former editor of the Pequot Times in Connecticut and editor/co-founder of Ojibwe Akiing in Wisconsin.  She worked as staff writer at News From Indian Country 1996-1999. Her writing, interviews and poetry have been published in newspapers and journals in the USA, Canada and Europe. She is the founder of Blue Hand Books, a publishing collective she started for other Native authors in 2011. She has been a panelist and presenter on the topic of Indian Adoption at many universi...

John Christian Hopkins, a member of the Rhode Island Narragansett Indian Tribe, is a descendant of King Ninigret, patriarch of the tribe’s last hereditary royal family. Hopkins is a career journalist who has worked at newspapers across the U.S. and has been a nationally syndicated columnist for Gannett News Service. He and his wife Sararesa live on her Navajo reservation in Arizona.   Hopkins, a member of the Narragansett Indian Tribe, returned to his home state of Rhode Island to speak at Bryant University in Smithfield, R.I. on March 6 2013 and the Tomaquag Indian Museum in Exeter, R.I., March 8. “Carlomagno” is an imaginative “what-if” blend of historical fact and fiction. It tells the story of an American Indian youth that is sold into slavery in the West Indies, escapes bondage, becomes a pirate on the Spanish Main and fights for a chance to return to the American Colonies. Hopkins’ newest work is “Loki: God of Mischief” (Blue ...