DeMeyer, Trace A

Through a sympathetic judge in her hometown, DeMeyer opened her adoption file at age 22 in Wisconsin, a sealed record state. Her journey takes her to Illinois to meet her birthfather in 1996 where she learns about her Cherokee-Shawnee-Delaware ancestry. DeMeyer is former editor of tribal newspapers the Pequot Times and Ojibwe Akiing. She freelances for News from Indian Country, a national independent native newspaper. DeMeyer’s chapter on Sac and Fox Olympian Jim Thorpe won critical praise in the 2001 …