Sat Okh

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Sat Okh ("Long Feather"), also known as Stanisław Supłatowicz (April 15, 1920 in Canada – July 3, 2003 in Gdańsk) was a Polish-Shawnee soldier and writer.

He was born near Mackenzie river, to a Polish mother, Stanisława Supłatowicz, and a Shawnee Indian. Shortly before World War II he travelled to Poland as "Stanisław Supłatowicz" with his mother. In 1940 he was arrested by the Gestapo and sent to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, he escaped from the train and joined Armia Krajowa where he was known as "Kozak" (Cossack). During his underground military service he received Krzyż Walecznych for bravery. In 1945 he was forced by the communist government to take a Polish name and took the masculinized form of his mother's name.

After the war in 1945 he was arrested and sentenced by the Polish Communist regime for belonging to Armia Krajowa. After being released he worked as a sailor and started writing books in Polish about his American-Indian heritage.

The site about Sat-Okh: http://www.sat-okh.art.pl/