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KITTY SUTTON & WHEEZER
Hi everyone. This is the real Wheezer. Yes, the same Wheezer in the new novel, Wheezer And The Painted Frog. He is an important part of this story of murder and greed. Sasa is a Cherokee girl who walked the Trail of Tears, she finds herself alone and afraid after her brother dies mysteriously. Wheezer helps her solve the mystery of who killed her five year old little brother, Usti Yansa, or Little Buffalo in Cherokee. When someone tries to kill Sasa in broad daylight, she knows that something is not right. But what? There is a man in the camp that Wheezer does not like at all. He warns Sasa with a growl whenever this man comes close. And, something else is happening in her camp. People are starving and the People are getting desperate. I hope you will read it. Wado... Oh! That means 'Thank You' in the Cherokee language. |
Wheezer And
The Painted Frog
Wheezer And The Painted Frog is a Native American historical fiction mystery set in Indian Territory, now Oklahoma. It begins in the spring of 1839, immediately after the last group of Cherokees, removed from their homeland in the east, were unceremoniously left to fend for themselves after an over 1,100 mile march called the Trail of Tears, where over 4,000 Cherokee died.
To tell you a little more about my book, I would like to first say that this is a story based on an event that has never been written about before. I know this because the months of research I did to find out about this event revealed the absence of either fiction or historical literature based on it. The event began in 1839, so that is where I began my story. The Cherokee were promised by Treaty to receive food supplies that would get them through the first year. Some of the Cherokee camps, though, did not receive food supplies that were edible. In fact they were rotten or full of bugs, the meat putrid. The reason for this was that the funds for these allotments were being drained off by greedy white men. The same men who were charged with protecting them. Their greed caused the deaths of another 1,000 Cherokees in that first year. They died of starvation.
Sasa (Swan) a thirteen year old Cherokee girl finds herself alone after all in her family dies. She finds and saves a lost dog who she names Wheezer. He is an extremely smart dog and he soon smells a human rat, but struggles to find a way to communicate what he senses is dangerous. His original owner, Jackson Halley, looks desperately for him, and when he finds Sasa and Wheezer together, they all become fast friends and soon set about solving the mystery of the reason why her five year old brother Usti Yansa (Little Buffalo) died.
Healthy little boys shouldn't grow weak and die when they have shelter, food and the care of their families, yet Sasa's little brother, the last of her family, sickens, mumbling the mysterious "I didn't do it right, I didn't do it enough. Why didn't it work?" Left alone, mourning and trying to survive in a new place with new ways, Sasa seeks answers with the help of her new friends, Wheezer and Jackson. The Jack Russell Terrier seems too wise, too fierce and too loyal to be just a dog. Did the Creator send Wheezer to Sasa and if so, how can a dog, albeit a smart one, help to solve a murder? Together, they discover a vast network of systematic plundering of the government funds earmarked for the Cherokee called the Allotment. Can they discover who is at the root of it all? We shall see.
Published by Inknbeans Press
Wheezer And The Painted Frog
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Now please feel free to make yourself comfortable. Maybe go pour yourself a nice cup of tea or coffee, sit back while Kitty Sutton reads the first chapter of Wheezer and the Painted Frog.
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Be sure an let us know how you like the reading of this first chapter. If it is well received, we may add the second chapter.
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Below is an interview. Please feel free to listen.
Interview on blogtalkradio Feb. 15, 2012
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