The 10th Annual Fox Cities Book Festival presents an event with local Neenah author, Roberta Capasso discussing the story behind her book, Sky Woman Lives in Me. "A photo of an elderly Native American woman on exhibit in a museum captures the attention of a child. Forty years later, this child, now an adult, finds the photo again and learns the old woman is a relative. She begins to research her past-only to discover the pain endured by her relatives as they resisted a governmental campaign to eradicate Native American cultures, languages, and communities in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries."
This Fox Cities Book Festival event is free and open to all interested individuals. The presentation will take place in the first floor Shattuck Community Room at the Neenah Public Library, please join us for a wonderful event!
About the Author
"This book took me fifteen years to research and write. I agree with Dawn Walschinski, Editor of the Oneida Newspaper, Kalihwisaks, that my process of writing this book probably started when I saw a photo of an elderly Oneida woman in the Milwaukee Museum when I was seven years old. Why I couldn’t stop seeing the image of this elderly lady in my mind for years haunts me. Ironically, four decades later in the year 2000 I see the same photo, hanging on a wall in my sister’s home."