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I'm in the planning stages for a horror story involving a teenage girl whose friends undergo drastic personality changes during their freshman year of high school.  While the adults in her life consider this normal adolescence, the girl realizes that the change always happens immediately after someone is dared to spend the night at a certain place ( Read more... )

The main character of my novel will be spending some time with an Iroquois Tribe from Ontario. There he will find a gay Japanese-Canadian (he is 16 at the current date in the story) is going to end up living with this particular Iroquois tribe. He met them a few times as a young child for single night events. He moved to stay with them permanently ( Read more... )

 I need to know anything and everything about Mayan culture, but particularly Mayan Astrology. I'm attempting to brainstorm for a  new fantasy idea/world based off of the culture of Meso-America, and part of the world is going to be based off of the totem animals in Mayan Astrology. So far, I've found one website (Read more... )

SO I'm trying to write this story wherein basically a very unfortunate family gets caught up in the lives of some American Indian gods, trickster gods in particular. I really wanted to use Coyote and Raven, but since the setting is Northeastern USA, I didn't know if they would be appropriate to use. Basically: are there any trickster gods specific ( Read more... )

I have three characters in my YA novel who are traditional Navajos.  Twin boy and girl, age 12, and their mother's mother ( Read more... )

Era, Location: 1500s Aztec empire post contact with the Spanish (AU and not historical ( Read more... )

When/setting: Sometime in the 1500s when Canada is still a French colony (as in there's no Britons around ( Read more... )

{x-posted to little_details, deaf, _nativeamerican}

Hi, all-

I’m hoping that someone can help me with an editing job I’m working on. One of my grandmother’s friends wrote the chapter on American Indians who are Deaf in Psychotherapy with Deaf Clients from Diverse Groups. The book is now going into its second edition, & she’s asked me to help ( Read more... )

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