Award-Winnning Journalist, Kathy Helms First Novel - 'Cowgirl Days, Frybread Nights'
Erin Brockovich Meets Tony Hillerman - Wrapped In Humor!
"Cowgirl Days, Frybread Nights" is a tale of adventure and self-discovery.
When a bored newspaper editor living in inner-city Nashville finds a token coin with a picture of an eagle on one side and the words "No Cash Value" on the other, she takes it as a sign that she should pack up her daughter and dog and follow her bliss 2,000 miles across the United States so she can live on an Indian reservation and write about the Navajo uranium legacy.
Who knew there was black witchcraft and white witchcraft and people running around at night in animal skins?
Kathy Helms' career as a writer began in a small town in Upper East Tennessee when she was a teenager and sold a story to American Girl magazine about her disastrous first date. When she received a check for $10 …, simply for writing, she figured it beat working in a factory and decided to make a career of it, despite her mother's protestations that journalism was "witchcraft."
She has since become an award-winning investigative reporter.
“If it sells, then I thought I would put aside a dollar or more to help individual Navajos that are struggling. There are so many families that need help, especially the elderly . That way, it will serve a good purpose. ... And it's not going to any organization that takes money off the top.”
http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1705765
You can read numerous articles written by Kathy Helms in the Native Unity Digest – http://nativeunity.blogspot.com - detailing the ongoing exposure to radioactive materials, soil, water and health problems of the Navajo people due to poisoning from the 1970s abandoned uranium mines.
Publish Date - November 05, 2010
Dimensions Black and White Text Pocket 238 pgs
Category Humor
Tags Navajo, uranium, witchcraft, UFO, Keanu, cowgirl, nuclear …, Post-71, Tennessee, journalism, Appalachian, medicine man, horse ride
Comments
janeoverman says
Kathy Helms is one of the most talented gals that I know! She writes, weaves, makes beaded jewelry & does anything she sets her mind to! She has won awards for her talented journalism. She is a wanderer after my own heart, seeking the truth and helping those around her. I can't wait to have the book in my hands to read, I know it will be a best seller!
ozarknature says
Kathy Helms wrote important stories on the nuclear industries in Tennessee for years before hitching up her horse and wagon for the wild West country where much of the nation's uranium legacy originated and where that legacy has caused grave harm to the indigenous inhabitants and to the fragile environment of the Colorado Plateau region. Kathy is a talented journalist with a strong feel for the places she writes about. I'm looking forward to reading this new work.
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"Cowgirl Days, Frybread Nights" is a tale of adventure and self-discovery.
When a bored newspaper editor living in inner-city Nashville finds a token coin with a picture of an eagle on one side and the words "No Cash Value" on the other, she takes it as a sign that she should pack up her daughter and dog and follow her bliss 2,000 miles across the United States so she can live on an Indian reservation and write about the Navajo uranium legacy.
Who knew there was black witchcraft and white witchcraft and people running around at night in animal skins?
Kathy Helms' career as a writer began in a small town in Upper East Tennessee when she was a teenager and sold a story to American Girl magazine about her disastrous first date. When she received a check for $10 …, simply for writing, she figured it beat working in a factory and decided to make a career of it, despite her mother's protestations that journalism was "witchcraft."
She has since become an award-winning investigative reporter.
“If it sells, then I thought I would put aside a dollar or more to help individual Navajos that are struggling. There are so many families that need help, especially the elderly . That way, it will serve a good purpose. ... And it's not going to any organization that takes money off the top.”
http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1705765
You can read numerous articles written by Kathy Helms in the Native Unity Digest – http://nativeunity.blogspot.com - detailing the ongoing exposure to radioactive materials, soil, water and health problems of the Navajo people due to poisoning from the 1970s abandoned uranium mines.
Publish Date - November 05, 2010
Dimensions Black and White Text Pocket 238 pgs
Category Humor
Tags Navajo, uranium, witchcraft, UFO, Keanu, cowgirl, nuclear …, Post-71, Tennessee, journalism, Appalachian, medicine man, horse ride
Comments
janeoverman says
Kathy Helms is one of the most talented gals that I know! She writes, weaves, makes beaded jewelry & does anything she sets her mind to! She has won awards for her talented journalism. She is a wanderer after my own heart, seeking the truth and helping those around her. I can't wait to have the book in my hands to read, I know it will be a best seller!
ozarknature says
Kathy Helms wrote important stories on the nuclear industries in Tennessee for years before hitching up her horse and wagon for the wild West country where much of the nation's uranium legacy originated and where that legacy has caused grave harm to the indigenous inhabitants and to the fragile environment of the Colorado Plateau region. Kathy is a talented journalist with a strong feel for the places she writes about. I'm looking forward to reading this new work.
TO SUBMIT an ARTICLE, OPINION PIECE, COMMENTS to the Native Unity Digest, e-mail bobbieo@digitaldune.net.
NATIVE UNITY - A place for Native American Peoples to solidify their tribes to make a positive impact on the cultural, social, economic and political fabric of American society and a place for non-Natives to better understand the ways of the American Indian.
Native Unity Digest stories are now appearing on the BeforeIt'sNews.com site under the Native American News category. Check them out!!!!
News Blog - American Indian Report - AIR BLOG
http://falmouth-air.blogspot.com
THE BUFFALO POST - Missoulian Montana's Native News Blog about Native People And The World We Live In.
http://buffalopost.net/
NATIVE AMERICA, DISCOVERED AND CONQUERED
http://lawlib.lclark.edu/blog/native_america/
NATIVE VOICES BOOKS: TRADITIONAL & CONTEMPORARY NATIVE BOOKS
http://nativevoicesbooks.com/
PATHOLOGY.ORG - Up-to-date informmational database on general health and disease information, medical schools and medical resources.
http://www.Pathology.org
FOR ANNIE'S NATIVE CELEBRITY NEWS - go to www.nativecelebs.com
SUPPORTING NATIVE AMERICAN/FIRST PEOPLE - ARTISTS, FILM MAKERS, ENTERTAINERS, ETC.
http://www.krystynmedia.blogspot.com.
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