Touch My Tears Update

Touch My Tears: Tales from the Trail of Tears is being well received throughout the Choctaw Nation. I'm excited to report it's now stocked at least the Choctaw Welcome Center. We will be doing four book signings so far in the coming months: Chief's meeting in Dallas, The Trail of Tears Commemorative Walk at Wheelock, Artist Bizarre May 5 in Durant, and at the 100th Anniversary celebration of the Frisco Depot in Antlers in June.

Copies are available on Amazon in print and ebook forms: Touch My Tears

We appreciate the great team we've had supporting us through this journey. Yakoke!

Book Release: “Touch My Tears: Tales from the Trail of Tears”

In 2012, I was honored as one of four artists in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian Artist Leadership Program for my literary work in preserving Choctaw Trail of Tears stories. As a Choctaw, this historic event has always been close to my heart. Every spring, my mom and I make a special trip to Oklahoma to join our tribe in a commemorative walk to honor our ancestors.

Now we have a new way to honor them, and help other people of all cultures understand this piece of American history so few know of.

Touch My Tears: Tales from the Trail of Tears

Whether or not you enjoy history or reading fiction in general, I believe these stories will reach out from the pages and touch your heart. And maybe a tear or two of your own.

Video: My NMAI Project

The story of my journey as a participant in the NMAI Artist Leadership Program 2012-2013. Video produced by my talented mama, Lynda Kay Sawyer of RockHaven Productions:

Chahta Siah!

Book Fun Magazine: Be Proud

Choctaw Color Guard at a powwow in Broken Bow, Oklahoma, 2013. Photo by Lynda Kay Sawyer

In the May Issue of the digital publication, Book Fun Magazine, you'll find our Choctaw Spirit column with a special story in honor of Mother's Day. It's a flash fiction I wrote based on a time in my mama's life when she wasn't proud to be indian: Choctaw Spirit: Be Proud

Chahta Siah,

Sarah Elisabeth

P.S. For back issue columns, see Choctaw Spirit in Book Fun Magazine

NMAI Artist Leadership Program Part 6: First Plane Ride, and The River Inn

We hadn't flown in nearly twenty years when we boarded the tiny jet at DFW for the nonstop flight to D.C. Only a few nerves at take off, and then we enjoyed the Google Earth style view behind the wing.

Now you see it...