Willow is a Tree is her real name. She is a Cherokee native woman who has seen life like no other. She is smart, maybe too smart, quirky and defines the words, sassy and cantankerous, and her favorite tee shirt reads, “fish out of water”.

The life of a native woman trying to survive in the white man’s world is tricky at best but somehow Willow has made this adventure a mixture of humor, tragic, dramatic, victorious to gut-wrenching defeat. But somehow, she has survived it all and earned her status as a respected elder laden with stories after stories that rival any classic literary book on the shelf.