Stella Long

Biography

Stella Long's mountain path was one of beauty as she walked alone at the age of six, talking with her friends, the creatures of the wild in the Choctaw language. (Fichek is her Choctaw name; Estella is the English name she likes best.) The mountain was her playground. There were times when she'd forget to go home until the night musicians, the insects, began tuning their instruments.

Stella (Fichek) writes and tells children's stories, getting her ideas from the animals and birds as she sits for hours in the solitary quietness of the lakeside observing animal behavior. She weaves a part of her life into these stories combined with Choctaw songs and sounds of the flute.

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