The truth at any cost: Phyllis Cameron-Johnson tells Paul Williams how paying a train fare, meeting Navajo visitors to her school and a canoeing accident shaped her life.(Turning Point)(Interview)(Biography)

From: For A Change | Date: December 1, 2004| Author: Williams, Paul | Copyright information

PHYLLIS CAMERON-JOHNSON'S children's book, Return of the Indian Spirit, richly illustrated by her late husband Bill, is infused with her love of the Native American people. She can trace this passion, and the faith and values which have guided her life, to her childhood in Illinois, USA, before World War II.

The seed bed, she says, was the life her parents lived and what they expected from their children. One pillar of that life was the scrupulous honesty that characteri...