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Armstrong is a passionate writer who deals with such important issues as education and indigenous rights of Native people in her books. She is a talented writer who writes for both adults and young people. She includes young people in her audience because she wants to educate them about Native culture and history. Her first novel, Slash, tells about a young Okanagan man, Thomas Kelasket, who is in search of himself. His family clings to a traditional Okanagan life, one that includes pow-wows and hunting. Although some of his friends tease him, Thomas secretly admits that he likes speaking the Okanagan language and attending the pow-wows.
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Armstrong’s 1985 work Slash is considered the first novel by a Native woman in Canada (Voices and Lutz 13). Armstrong is the grand-niece of Mourning Dove (1888-1936)... known as Hum-Ishu-Ma and Christine Quintasket, who is regarded as one of the earliest Native American woman novelists for her 1927 work Cogewea, the Half-Blood (Voices and Lutz 13).
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Armstrong's racially integrated band sometimes had trouble finding places to play in the southern region of his own country, and they were not allowed to play in his hometown of New Orleans. Armstrong made few public statements about racism, but when he did speak up, he was candid. After state troopers brutally attacked protest marchers in Selma, Alabama, in March 1965, the trumpeter remarked, "They would beat Jesus if he was black and marched." When the Civil Rights Act was passed later that year, Armstrong's band played a triumphant benefit concert in New Orleans.
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In 1955 Armstrong became a research test pilot for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) assigned to the X-15 rocket plane program. NASA selected Armstrong to be an astronaut in 1962. On March 16, 1966, Armstrong and Dave Scott were launched in Gemini 8 to conduct the first two-craft linkup in space, docking with a target satellite named Agena. Apollo 11 astronauts Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, and Mike Collins left for the Moon on July 16, 1969. Armstrong and Aldrin landed their lunar module "Eagle" in the Moon's Sea of Tranquility four days later, on July 20. Armstrong stepped onto the surface and became the first human to set foot on the Moon.
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Armstrong made numerous television and film appearances throughout his career. His first film was 1936's Pennies From Heaven, which featured Bing Crosby. Other films include Every Day's A Holiday (1937), Going Places (1938), Cabin in the Sky (1943), New Orleans (1947), The Strip (1951), The Glenn Miller Story (1954), High Society (1957), and A Man Called Adam (1966). He ... appeared on television in Hollywood Palace and on Broadway in Hot Chocolates (1929) and Swingin' the Dream (1939), a musical adaptation of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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Armstrong was born on August 4, 1901 (although throughout his life he maintained that his birthday was July 4, 1900), in New Orleans, Louisiana, and was largely self-educated. He learned to play the bugle, clarinet, and cornet and took trumpet lessons from the noted jazz artist King Oliver. In 1917 Armstrong made his professional debut as a trumpeter with the band of “Kid” Ory in New Orleans. In 1922 he joined Oliver's Creole Jazz Band in Chicago, then the centre of American jazz, and except for a year (1924-1925) with Fletcher Henderson in New York, he remained in Chicago until 1929. Armstrong organized his own band in 1925. Within the next few years he won recognition as one of the foremost jazz trumpet players of all time and as an outstanding jazz vocalist.
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