woostify domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/latestwordpress/lonestar.a1professionals.net_public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131When a Ghost Talks, Listen: A Choctaw Trail of Tears Story<\/span><\/span><\/em> (Roadrunner Press) by Tim Tingle wins middle-grade category in 2018 Reading the West Awards.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Earlier this week, When a Ghost Talks, Listen: A Choctaw Trail of Tears Story<\/em><\/a> (Roadrunner Press) by Tim Tingle<\/a> won the middle-grade category in the 2018 Reading the West Awards. Tim Tingle, who grew up in Texas and currently lives at Canyon Lake, is an Oklahoma Choctaw and an award-winning author and storyteller. His great-great-grandfather, John Carnes, walked the Trail of Tears in 1835, and his paternal grandmother attended a series of rigorous Indian boarding schools in the early 1900s. In 1993, Tingle retraced the Trail of Tears to Choctaw homelands in Mississippi and began recording stories of tribal elders.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n His first children\u2019s book, Crossing Bok Chitto<\/em>, garnered more than twenty state and national awards, and was an Editor\u2019s Choice in the New York Times Book Review<\/em>. In June of 2011, Tingle spoke at the Library of Congress and presented his first performance at the Kennedy Center, in Washington, D.C. He received a master\u2019s degree in English literature at the University of Oklahoma in 2003, with a focus on American Indian studies. While teaching writing courses and completing his thesis, Tingle wrote his first book, Walking the Choctaw Road<\/em>. It was selected as Book of the Year in Oklahoma and Alaska. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>In February of 2016, his novel House Of Purple Cedar<\/em> won the American Indian Youth Literature Award.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tingle was a featured author and speaker at the 2014 National Book Festival in Washington, D.C., based on critical acclaim for How I Became a Ghost <\/em>(the first book in the series), which won the 2014 American Indian Youth Literature Award. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>As a visiting author and performer, Tingle reaches audiences numbering over 200,000 annually. He has completed eight speaking tours for the U.S. Department of Defense, performing stories to children of military personnel stationed in Germany.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n