Exploring Your Creative Genius: Episode 158
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This week’s guest is Ray Hackney, talking about his new novel, ‘A Plea for Freedom.’ Ray grew up hearing stories about his great-great-great-great grandfather, Daniel Asbuy, who had accompanied Daniel Boone as they explored Kentucky, and those family stories inspired this book.
I love it. Partly because of the many views on Shawnee life and their culture. My novels tell Ojibwe stories, and both tribes are Algonquin speakers; the Ojibwe lived mostly north of the Great Lakes, the Shawnee, at the time of Ray’s book, were still living in the Ohio River Valley.
The Shawnee had a leading role in uniting other tribes in resistance against the French, then the English, finally retreating west and eventually settling in Oklahoma, in the face of ever-growing and never-ending American expansion.
Ray’s book is set at a time when they were still living in the Ohio River Valley.
As was true of many Algonquin tribes, a Shawnee town had two leaders; a leader for domestic affairs, another for war. They called themselves Saawanwaki, The Southern People, and they were one of the southernmost Algonquin tribes.
It was a common practice among most of the indigenous of the Americas to adopt prisoners into the tribe as happens in Ray’s novel. Because of high mortality rates from raiding parties and hunting accidents and diseases it was often necessary, to maintain a large enough population to be sustaining.
“Exploring Your Creative Genius” takes an expansive view on what it means to be creative and entrepreneurial in an ongoing conversation led by Carl Nordgren — entrepreneur, novelist, and lifelong student with decades of experience growing his own creative capacity and assisting others to do the same in exciting new ways!
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