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Education:Language Learning
When it comes to Native American heritage, most Americans have woefully inadequate knowledge. They may have heard of Squanto or Sacajawea, but that is the extent of their understanding. A 2018 research project conducted by The First Nations Development Institute and Echo Hawk Consulting found that most Americans think there aren’t many Native Americans left in the country, which just isn’t true. There are close to 600 federally recognized tribes in the United States.
November is National Native American Heritage Month so we want to introduce you to some Native authors to add to your TBR all year long including our guest today, who is a new voice in fiction.
Our guest this week is Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle, a member of the Eastern Tribe of Cherokee Indians, who is deeply rooted in the Cherokee community in North Carolina. She has been a high school English and Cherokee Studies teacher for the past 10 years. But she is also a novelist whose debut historical fiction novel, Even As We Breathe, was published this past September by a new literary imprint called Fireside Industries, a collaboration between The Appalachian Writers Workshop and the University Press of Kentucky.
Annette talks to us about the James Baldwin quote that inspired her to write about a clean bone which has significance in her writing practice as well as her novel, what things she learned from her editor, well-known Kentucky author Silas House, and how she wants to use her influence of being a Cherokee novelist to educate the wider public that Native Americans are something very different from what they see in old Westerns and popular culture.
Books Mentioned in this Episode:
1- Even As We Breathe by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle
2- Beverly Cleary books
3- Babysitters Club series
4- The Prettiest Star by Carter Sickels
5- F*ckface: And Other Stories by Leah Hampton
6- Going to Water by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle
7- Myths of the Cherokee by James Mooney (and other books)
8- Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate
9- Crooked Hallelujah by Kelli Jo Ford
10- When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry by Joy Harjo
11- Horsepower by Joy Priest
12- City of Saints and Thieves by Natalie C. Anderson
13- Americanah by Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie
14- The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
15- Calypso by David Sedaris
16- A Kind of Freedom by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
Season 5 Ep. 106 The Age Old Story of a Sisterhood with guest Grace Sammon
Perks RePlay Ep. 80 Resistance Reading with Guest Farrah Alexander 9-22-21
Season 5 Ep. 105 The Hidden Value of a Book with guest Elizabeth Senn-Alvey 9-15-21
Season 5 Ep. 104 Stories of the Crown with guest St. Clair Detrick-Jules 9-8-21
Season 5 Ep. 103 Travel Expectations with Amber Share and Suzanne Roberts 9-1-21
Season 5 Ep. 102 The Building Books of Empathy with guest Melissa Hart
Season 5 Ep. 101 Rainbow Readers Unite with guest Sanjay Saverimuttu
Season 5 Ep. 100 Globe Trotter with guest Heather Lennon of Arctis Books 8-11-21
Season 5 Ep. 99 Sinister Small Town Teen Suspense with guest Brooke Lauren Davis 8-4-21
Season 5 Ep. 98 Ask the Agent with guest Alice Speilburg
Season 5 Ep. 97 A Bookstore for Kids Galore with guest Caroline Stine
Season 5 Ep. 96 Mastering the Meet Cute with guest Melonie Johnson 7-14-21
Season 5 Ep. 95 The Suspense is Killing Us with guest David Bell 7-7-21
Perks RePlay You Can't Read This with guest Natalie McCall
Perks RePlay A Voice From Cherokee with guest Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle 11-8-20
Season 4 Ep. 94 To Read A "Mockingbird" with guest Ben Self 6-16-21
Season 4 Ep. 93 Speedier Reader with guest Jacqui Isser 6-7-2021
Season 4 Ep.92 Riding and Writing with the Butterflies with guest Sara Dyckman 6-2-21
Season 4 Ep. 91 Summertime and the Reading is Easy with Bookseller Sam Miller 5-26-21
Season 4 Ep. 90 Storytelling in a Steampunk World with guest Maram Taibah 5-19-21
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