For Angela Noah, 28, a citizen of the White Mountain Apache Tribe with Choctaw Nation descent, telling stories has been an integral part of her identity since she was young.
In elementary school Noah remembers telling her mother elaborate stories about what happened each day at school. A natural storyteller from a young age, she began journaling about her daily life in fourth grade, stacks of filled composition notebooks piling up next to her bed.
“I totally fabricated a story just to get her attention,” Noah said while laughing, remembering the drives home from school with her mom. “I remember thinking ‘oh, that’s a gift. I should make money off that.’”…