The Toe Bone and the Tooth was written by Martin Prechtel.
He also write the books Stealing Benefacio's Rose's, The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun, Ecstasy and time, Long Life, Honey in the Heart, and Secret's of the Talking Jaguar.
He was raised in New Mexico to the village of Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala.
I think that he wrote this story because maybe when he was small people were racist to him.