Terra Trevor
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Terra Trevor, of Cherokee, Delaware, Seneca ancestry, is a contributing author of 10 books, including Children of the Dragonfly: Native American Voices On Child Custody and Education (The University of Arizona Press) and The People Who Stayed: Southeastern Indian Writing After Removal (The University of Oklahoma). Trevor's memoir Pushing up the Sky: A Mother's Story published in 2006, is widely anthologized.

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My Year at the Shelter

(4) Comments | Posted May 1, 2012 | 2:38 PM

The year I worked at a group home youth crisis shelter with runaway, homeless and foster youth in transition is strung on a ribbon of memories as if it had been one long unending day.

Although my shift didn't begin until 8 a.m., I always arrived a bit early...

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Thoughts On Adoption Motherhood, In Black, White And Technicolor

(7) Comments | Posted January 5, 2012 | 12:32 PM

When my book was published a Beverly Hills based writer-friend, who also happens to be an adoptee with famous adoptive parents, offered to do a favor for me. Namely allow her publicist to stir up Hollywood celebrity adoptive parent publicity to pair with my memoir Pushing up the Sky. But...

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Happy Thanksgiving: An American Indian Perspective

(71) Comments | Posted November 23, 2011 | 2:28 PM

Native American Heritage Month Braided With Thanksgiving

Wind, smelling of wood smoke rattles the yellow leaves off the peach tree. I adjust my glasses, button my coat. My son bounds from his classroom to greet me. Eyes filled with brown warmth, he peeks out from under a cap of shiny...

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