They Say the Wind is Red

Jackie Matte Talks MOWA Band of Choctaws with University of Alabama Birmingham Magazine

The Birmingham News and the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s weekly magazine recently featured Jacqueline Matte, historian and NewSouth author of They Say the Wind is Red: The Alabama Choctaw — Lost in Their Own Land. The magazine article centers on Matte’s combined efforts with UAB anthropologist Loretta Cormier to validate the existence of the MOWA Band of Choctaw Indians …

July 19, 2009 No Comments

Jackie Matte Lectures at Johns Hopkins University

Jackie Matte, author of They Say the Wind Is Red, spoke on November 13, 2007 to a group of students at the John Hopkins Center for American Indian Health in recognition of Native American History Month. Students enjoyed a lecture on Jackieâ€™s experiences, and afterward she signed copies of her book …

February 14, 2008 No Comments

NewSouth Author Writes Letter to the Editor in Support of the Mowa Band of Choctaw Indians

Jacqueline Matte, author of They Say the Wind is Red, had a Letter to the Editor posted in the Birmingham News on October 25, 2006. Matte writes that she is pleased with the paper’s article about Calcedeaver Elementary School as “Gov. Bob Riley’s poster child for Alabama’s Reading Initiative program”; however, she says that the children who attend the school, mostly “poor Native Americans,” should be recognized as part of the Mowa Band of Choctaw Indians, a tribe still seeking to be recognized by the federal government …

November 6, 2006 No Comments

Category: They Say the Wind is Red

Jackie Matte Talks MOWA Band of Choctaws with University of Alabama Birmingham Magazine

Jackie Matte Lectures at Johns Hopkins University

NewSouth Author Writes Letter to the Editor in Support of the Mowa Band of Choctaw Indians