Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick
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Author and illustrator Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1962. Some of her well-known works are Lizzy and Skunk; I'm a Tiger, Too!; You, Me and the Big Blue Sea; and The Long March. She has received numerous awards, including two Reading Association of Ireland Children's Book mehr anzeigen Awards, the Irish Children's Book Trust Book of the Decade Award, and two Bisto Merit Awards for best children's book. She lives in Ireland, but likes to travel and has visited Australia and the United States. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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Irish author/artist Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick explores this story in her deeply moving, beautifully told, and beautifully illustrated picture-book, first published in Dublin in 1998. It is the story of Choona, a young Choctaw boy just on the verge of manhood, who learns, through community discussion of this call for aid, the true story of his own people and family's experiences. Hitherto, his parents and great-grandmother - the eldest surviving member of the tribe - had never spoken of the Long March. Angry and confused, at first Choona isn't sure that he wants his family to donate. Why didn't we fight back, he wants to know - why didn't we refuse to leave our land? And why should we care about these people so far away? His great-grandmother explains that their people did what they felt they had to, to survive. Their mistake, she elaborates, was in not sharing their story with their children. The revelation that Choona had an elder brother he never got to meet, an elder brother who died at the age of one, during the Long March, is what changes his perspective. His newfound sense of loss, his realization of what he could have had, if the promised aid had been given to his people, and his elder brother had lived, leads him to decide that aid should be sent...
I read The Long March: The Choctaw's Gift to Irish Famine Relief when it was first published in the states, back in 1999, and I reread it during my children's literature masters programs, which I took at an Irish university. Today, after learning of the recent spate of Irish donations toward the Navajo and Hopi, I reread it again. It is a beautifully told book, one that had me in tears on more than one occasion, and it is beautifully illustrated, in detailed pencil drawings. Fitzpatrick spent a great deal of time visiting with the Choctaw Nation in Oklahoma, and the people in her book are based on character studies she did of real Choctaw individuals. The cultural details - the language, the objects used, the social customs - are all authentic, and the result of much research and consultation with the Choctaw. The foreword here is written by Choctaw artist Gary White Deer, and the book comes recommended by Gregory E. Pyle, who was the Choctaw Chief, at the time of publication. I cannot recommend this book highly enough! Informative, engrossing, poignant and uplifting, it is a truly beautiful work, and is one I would push on everyone with an interest in Irish history, Native American history, or in the way in which our deeds, whether as individuals or as a group, echo down through the generations. Choona's great-grandmother says, when addressing the community, that "our help will be like an arrow shot through time. It will land many winters from now to wait as a blessing for our unborn generations." Can there be any better proof of the truth of these words, than the famine relief that the Irish and Choctaw have taken together, in recent decades, or in the recent spate of donations flowing from Ireland to the Najavo and Hopi?
Read this book! It can be found for free on The Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/longmarch00mari
And then donate some money to the Navajo and Hopi, if you can. I know I plan to!:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/NHFC19Relief… (mehr)