DeMeyer, Trace A
September 9, 1956
Through a sympathetic judge in her hometown, DeMeyer opened her adoption file at age 22 in Wisconsin, a sealed record state. Her journey takes her to Illinois to meet her birthfather in 1996 where she learns about her Cherokee-Shawnee-Delaware ancestry. DeMeyer is former editor of tribal newspapers the Pequot Times and Ojibwe Akiing. She freelances for News from Indian Country, a national independent native newspaper. DeMeyer’s chapter on Sac and Fox Olympian Jim Thorpe won critical praise in the 2001 book Olympics at the Millennium (published by Rutgers Press). Her poetry was published in
