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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eyas" data-source="post: 981724" data-attributes="member: 12848">Crystal's HistoryCrystal “Little Wing” Lassiter was born June 9, 1978 in a small hospital in Dale County, AL. Her father, James Lassiter, a full blooded Choctaw from the reservation in Philadelphia, was a civilian contractor working for the army at Ft. Rucker, while her mother, Judith, was a kindergarten teacher in the small town of Enterprise. Crystal’s earliest memories are happy ones of a peaceful childhood. All that changed, unfortunately, when, shortly after her 5th birthday, both her parents were killed in a tragic car accident. Crystal remembers little of the next few months after, mainly just sorrow as her child’s mind tried to grasp the concept of mortality and death, until her grandfather Jimmy “Howling Wind” Lassiter arrived from the reservation to claim her. Jimmy, a retired army Sergeant, lived on the reservation in a small but neat two-bedroom mobile home alone since his wife Nita passed after suffering a stroke.As the years passed on the Reservation, Crystal grew into a smart and fiercely independent young woman with few friends her own age. Instead, she would hang around her grandfather and his friends listening to old tribal tales and stories or, again with Grandfather, out hiking and studying the world around her. It was during this time that Crystal developed her life’s ambition and, after graduating from high school in the top of her class, Crystal went on to college to earn a degree in Archaeology with a minor in Biology.Crystal now finds herself at UAB in the graduate program in the Archaeology department there working as a GTA while working on her master’s degree. When not teaching, Crystal alternates her time between her bartending job in south side (she takes a certain pleasure in serving the predominantly white crowd that frequents “her” bar the poison that still has such an effect on her people) and studying. In fact, it was working on a paper that led her to the Ward library on that rainy night…</blockquote>

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