Queer Person
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Queer Person is a children's novel by Ralph Hubbard. It tells the story of a deaf-mute
Deaf-mute
For "deafness", see hearing impairment. For "Deaf" as a cultural term, see Deaf culture. For "inability to speak", see muteness.Deaf-mute is a term which was used historically to identify a person who was both deaf and could not speak...

 boy who is raised among the Pikuni
Pikuni
The Pikuni are a Native American Group. They are part of the 'Blackfeet', a group who lived in the prairie areas of Montana. The area where the Pikuni lived bordered the Canadian and American Rocky Mountains. Other Blackfoot groups included the Nehiyawak, the Siksika, and others....

. The novel, illustrated by Harold von Schmidt
Harold von Schmidt
Harold von Schmidt was an American illustrator who specialized inmagazine interior illustrations. Born in Alameda, California in 1893, he was orphaned at the age of five. After a year in an orphanage, he went to live with his grandfather, who had been a forty-niner. As a youth von Schmidt worked...

, was first published in 1930 and was a Newbery Honor
Newbery Medal
The John Newbery Medal is a literary award given by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association . The award is given to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. The award has been given since 1922. ...

recipient in 1931.

Plot summary

When a lost four-year-old deaf-mute wanders into a Pikuni camp he is shunned by them as marked by evil spirits. They give him the name "Queer Person". An old medicine woman takes him in and raises him. She predicts greatness for him and ensures he is worthy of it. During his test of bravery as an adolescent, he rescues the chief's son. He wins the heart of the chief's daughter and eventually becomes a leader of the tribe.
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