Download or read book Wynema: A Child of the Forest. Illustrated written by Sophia Alice Callahan and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-04 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wynema, a Child of the Forest was a historical novel by American (Muscogee) author, Sophia Alice Callahan. It is the first novel by a Native American woman in the U.S. The novel follows Wynema, a young Muscogee girl, who, like Callahan, becomes educated in English and teaches at a mission school. She is shown marrying the brother of her friend, a white teacher. She has a child with him, but after Wounded Knee, also adopts a Lakota infant girl.