Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

Before the outsider, now Chief Heads Off, brought the Elk Dog to The People their strategy had always been to flee or hide from their mortal enemies, the Head Splitters.

Rabbit, the grandson of Heads Off, looses the sacred Spanish Bit of his people to the Blue Paints. He seeks to recover the Spanish Bit by riding against Walks-Like-Thunder, the Blue Paints chief.

To limit the influence of the French along the Mississippi River, the Spanish send out an expedition to capture Indians allied with the French. The result is a massacre by the Pawnee. A young Spanish captive is a slave at first, but later marries into the Pawnee tribe. This is the eighteenth novel in the popular Spanish Bit series that chronicles early contact between native Americans and white settlers and explorers.

From birth he'd been called Speajs-not. Deaf and mute he lives in a world of silence apart from his people, who later rename him Hunts-Alone for his unsual but successful approach to securing sustenance from the wild game that roams the land. Stronger than his handicap, he finds love, establishes his own lodge, and begins a family of his own-all of which is shattered forever the day the forest people attack his encampment.

"Misunderstood by her peers and unloved by her stepmother, the young Cherokee, Corn Flower, finds acceptance with Snakewater, the medicine woman of Old Town. Soon, Corn Flower moves into Snakewater's isolated house and begins learning the art of healing - what ceremonies to perform, which plants to harvest, how to preserve them. When Snakewater dies, Corn Flower inherits the role and the power of the medicine woman as well as her name, Snakewater.". "This...