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   Conscience: Breaching Social Amnesia is vehoae's first of a series that draws parallels between European invader's personal perspectives and motivations and professional decisions to subjugate and exterminate "heathen red-skinned impediments." Having a profound appreciation for non-revisionist history, vehoae provides primary document details typically avoided in favor of political correctness.

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cover by Aidana WillowRaven

• Pages: 216 
• Published: January 2011
• Language: English​​
• PB ISBN-10: 0982642385
• PB ISBN-13: 978-0982642382
• Dimensions: 6.1 x 0.5 x 9.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces

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5 out of 5 stars   Getting History Right!

   "A number of contemporary historians and ethno-historians work diligently toward the re-examination of American history with less ethno-centric bias. In the same vein as Richard White, Dan Littlefield, James Brooks, and others, vehoae masterfully sets about the task of getting history right.
     This book, based on what must have included heroic efforts of research, illustrates the longstanding damage on American history caused by the 'social amnesia' of dominant Euro-American culture. The convenient erasure of American Indian perspective and influence on America's past is central to the discussion. Linking primary sources from archival records with a strong understanding of actual Native American history, vehoae strikes a well-deserved blow against authors of revisionist history.
     Scholars familiar with Native American issues will find this volume useful in building a better understanding and knowledge base. Those unfamiliar will find it eye-opening, to say the least."
                                                             ~ Greg Rodgers, Choctaw Storyteller, author of "The Ghost of Mingo Creek and other Spooky Oklahoma Legends"

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cover art by Aidana WillowRaven

     Pahutchae’s Pouch is a compelling fictional  history of people and events from 1783 to 2017. The story relates the interaction and intertwining of descendants from Pahutchae, an Ioway Indian, and Johann Sordenauer from Hamburg, Germany.
     Oil, murder, love, a concealed treaty with American Indians, and international and national political intrigue make Pahutchae’s Pouch the quintessential page-turner.

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5 out of 5 stars   History with mystery and murder

   "I found Pahutchae’s Pouch by vehoae to be an ambitious novel in the vein of James A. Michener’s historical works. It follows the twists and turns of a host of families, from those that eventually landed in America ready to make their fortunes in whatever way possible to America’s own native citizens struggling to preserve the land and way of life.
   The scope is a sweeping story of greed and betrayal, love and hatred, political ambition and power. A plain and unassuming pouch, originally belonging to an elderly Ioway Indian and handed down through generations, is the underlying mystery woven throughout a web of intrigue that includes trickery and murder.
   While a fictional story that takes liberties with present day boundaries, it is filled with references to actual historical events. And this author knows her history. Reference her previous book, Conscience: Breaching Social Amnesia, a discussion of early-day motivations and beliefs regarding America’s original inhabitants. It is complete with primary documents spanning nearly three centuries and much of Pahutchae’s Pouch springs from the insights gained in vehoae’s early research."
                                                                            ~ M Carolyn Steele; USA

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• Pages: 340 
• Published: October 2018
• Language: English
• HC ISBN-10: 1940310857
• HC ISBN-13: 978-1940310855
• PB ISBN-10: 1940310490
• PB ISBN-13: 978-1940310497
• Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.81 x 8.5 in
• Shipping Weight: HC: 1.19 lb

vehoae at Edmond Author Festival

vehoae at book celebration for Pahutchae's Pouch (2)

vehoae at book celebration for Pahutchae's Pouch (1)

vehoae at book celebration for Pahutchae's Pouch (3)

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5 out of 5 stars   
Non-revisionist history takes center stage

       "Statesmen are memorialized for their words: 'Ask not ...' (Jack Kennedy); 'I have a dream!' (MLK); 'Remember the Alamo!' (Sam Houston?). They are often haunted, too, by less gracious words captured on video or paper.
   In Conscience: Breaching Social Amnesia, vehoae uses quotes from primary sources to compile a record of conquistadores, governors, kings and presidents whose careers spanned the conquest of North America. Using their own words, the author chronicles the process of appropriation of our continent by European elitists and their progeny.
       Most people, American and otherwise, are aware in some vague sense that white people 'stole' the land from the red people. Conscience reveals the politicians and very documents who facilitated the process. And to read aloud the words, written by Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, etc. as they came to terms with the 'Indian Problem' is to realize that the more we study these statesmen the less we truly understand them.
       Whatever humanitarian, philosophical, or economic justifications these men use to explain their acts seem to blend seamlessly into the grand sweep of inevitable history; but as real words, they are uncomfortable threats giving voice to that history as it moves as real words, they are uncomfortable threats giving voice to that history as it moves through diplomacy to war to subjugation.
       Conscience goes further, though, by revealing some of the ways Native family life was deliberately dismantled as a step toward de-tribalization as it played out in the words of politicians who had the power to implement sweeping policies that separated children from parents, citing arrogant notions that 'government' knew best.
       Ultimately, vehoae's book seems to stand as a warning against government itself, and it is no great leap to apply the lessons therein to modern American society: that government unchecked grows hungrier; that government tends to think it knows what is best for people."
                                                                                                                                                                                                   ~ Robby McMurtry, award winning author and graphic illustrator; Gunplay: The True Story of Pistol Pete on the Hootowl Trail; Native Heart: The Life and Times of Ned Christie, Cherokee Patriot and Renegade.

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5 out of 5 stars   
Getting History Right

   "Balzac is credited with saying 'Behind every great fortune there is a great crime.' As a corollary to this statement, it might be said, 'The prosperity of every great nation is founded on a series of great crimes.' This corollary doubtless applies to the prosperity of the United States. An impartial judge inquiring into these crimes would find a reasonable summary of the facts in [Conscience: Breaching Social Amnesia] by Shirl Yancey who writes under the name, vehoae.
   In this scholarly, well reasoned and amply documented work, vehoae assembles and presents a devastating barrage of damning documents. Beginning with the insatiable greed of the European colonial powers and continuing through the shameful duplicity of the US federal government, vehoae calls on primary sources to illustrate the callous beliefs and actions that prompted and attempted to justify the enormous crimes perpetrated against the Native Americans who she refers to as 'The Nations.' In a modern world where daily lip service is paid to the protection and advancement of human rights, Conscience: as the title suggests, issues a clear call against arrogance and hypocrisy.
   The author presents her evidence in a compelling and straightforward fashion leaving the reader to wonder whether it would ever be possible to advance a counterargument. vehoae is never strident or hysterical. She simply presents the evidence and invites the reader to draw his/her own conclusions. It is clear from the subtext, however, that vehoae is passionate about her subject and she clearly has strong emotional connections to 'The Nations.'...
   Conscience: is an important addition to the body of work shining a light on the powerful and ambiguous mixture of crimes and triumphs that went into the making of the United States of America. This is a valuable resource for anyone interested in putting modern American prosperity in its proper historical context."
                                             ~ Michael W. Hinkle, award-winning author of The Butane Gospel

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   A researcher, author, and speaker, vehoae has a deep interest in non-revisionist history and primary documents.
   After a career with the USDA that began in her hometown of Washington, D.C., vehoae retired and now lives in Oklahoma. She has continued her decades-long research, writing, and speaking, with a deep interest in non-revisionist history and primary documents. Her non-fiction work, Conscience: Breaching Social Amnesia, was published in 2011 by 4RV Publishing, followed by a historical novel, Pahutchae's Pouch, released in November 2018.

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5 out of 5 stars   
A compendium of
​American History truth

     "A helpful and concise compendium using important primary sources, Conscience: Breaching Social Amnesia is a valuable read for anyone interested in the social and political attitudes that comprise the real truth of American history."                                                                      ~ Rilla Askew, award-winning author of The Mercy Seat, Fire in Beulah, and many more.

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