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'''Sat-Okh''' (c. 1920 – July 3, 2003), also known as '''Stanisław Supłatowicz,''' was a soldier in the [[Polish resistance movement in World War II|Polish Resistance]] during [[World War II]]. He later was known as a celebrated children's author. He claimed to be Polish-[[Shawnee]] and to have grown up in Canada among [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|First Nations]] people. He was an important figure in the Polish "indianist" movement. |
'''Sat-Okh''' (c. 1920 – July 3, 2003), also known as '''Stanisław Supłatowicz,''' was a soldier in the [[Polish resistance movement in World War II|Polish Resistance]] during [[World War II]]. He later was known as a celebrated children's author. He claimed to be Polish-[[Shawnee]] and to have grown up in Canada among [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|First Nations]] people. He was an important figure in the Polish "indianist" movement. |
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Sat-Okh (c. 1920 – July 3, 2003), also known as Stanisław Supłatowicz, was a soldier in the Polish Resistance during World War II. He later was known as a celebrated children's author. He claimed to be Polish-Shawnee and to have grown up in Canada among First Nations people. He was an important figure in the Polish "indianist" movement.
Early life
Stanisław Supłatowicz claimed to be a son of a Polish mother and Shawnee father, born in Canada and reared among his father's people.[1] In the late 1930's Sat-Okh and his mother moved to Poland. Because Supłatowicz, as a Native American, did not have a Canadian citizenship, he had to create a birth certificate to gain the Polish one. In order to do it, his mother changed some of his data to hide his Native American ancestry.
Military career
Supłatowicz joined the Polish resistance movement during the German occupation. He was arrested by Gestapo in 1940 and deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, but he escaped from the train transport to the camp.
Sat-Okh joined the Home Army, where he gained a nickname Kozak because of his bravery and fighting style based on making traps. During World War II Supłatowicz earned several medals, including the Cross of Valour. After the war he was arrested and imprisoned by the communist regime for his participation in the Home Army. After his release, Sat-Okh enlisted in the Polish Navy, where he served for six years.
Literary career
Under the name Sat Okh, Stanisław Supłatowicz published several autobiographical novels for children in Polish. They were translated into several European languages. The books describe a boy's childhood and coming of age among the Shawnee in the Northwest Territories in the 1930s. Critics and reviewers of his work have noted that many of his descriptions are of First Nations life and customs associated with an earlier time period and with peoples of other geographical locations.
Sat Okh died in Gdańsk on July 3, 2003.
Works
- Ziemia słonych skał (The Land of Salt Rocks) (1958)
- Biały mustang (White Mustang) (1959)
- Dorogi skhodyat'sya (Roads Merge) (in Russian with Antonina Rasulova) (1973)
- Powstanie człowieka (The Emergence of Man) (1981)
- Fort nad Athabaską (Fort over Athabaska) (with Yackta-Oya) (1985)
- Głos prerii (Sounds of the Prairie) (1990)
- Tajemnica Rzeki Bobrów (The Mystery of Beaver River) (1996)
- Serce Chippewaya (Chippewa's Heart) (1999)
- Walczący Lenapa (Fighting Lenapa) (2001)
See also
Notes
References
- [http://www.susannaleaassociates.com/livre.aspx?id=255#haut Stephen Glantz, Like A Hero Going Home, Sat Okh. This is a novel based on the true story of Sat Okh, the Shawnee of Black River, Susanna Lea Associates.
