Indian Town: Where My Story Begins

by Sylvester Duane Foote Sr.

Overview

The book is about a young Indian Boy that grows up in a small town in South Dakota. There is a section of the town that was for all the Natives to live that was called "Indian Town". The boy grows up in poverty and endures all the hardship that goes with being poor. He eventually drops out of high school in the tenth grade to go into the service. This was his only option to get out of poverty and learn a trade. He finishes his military training and is sent to Vietnam where he ends up doing two one-year tours. He completes his enlistment with the service and moves to North Dakota and works until his retirement in 2009.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781665569712
Publisher:	AuthorHouse
Publication date:	09/08/2022
Pages:	266
Sales rank:	765,298
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Sylvester D. Foote Sr. is happily retired and lives in North Dakota with his wife Faye of forty-three years, 3 children one birth daughter, one birth son and one adopted daughter and two poodles by the names of Pebbles and Blossom. Sylvester is currently doing his part as a Tribal Elder or Grand Parent by opening up his home to children that need a safe place to stay until they can reunite with their parents. Sylvester and his wife are not foster parents, they do this out of kindness of their heart. Sylvester knows the feeling of being unwanted and homeless until he was taken in by a wonderful woman that took him in and gave him a home at a young age. He pays back by helping as many kids as he can and there’s one that has a big piece of his heart that calls him “Bossman”.