People of the Mist
People of the MistPEOPLE of the MIST
From "The First North Americans Series"
"The First North Americans Series" provides in a series of books fictional accounts of the lives of several groups of per-European North Americans. The time period of the books in this series covers a period from approximately 13,000 years BC to approximately 1,300 years AD. The PEOPLE of the MIST is from the latter period of the time range and tells a story family groups of the Algonquin Indians of the Chesapeake Bay area of Virginia, around 1,300 AD.
The authors did a great deal of archeological research for this book. It contains an excellent bibliography for anyone interested in further study on the subject of the Native Americans portrayed in the book.
PEOPLE of the MIST is a book about the Algonquin Indian tribes of the Chesapeake Bay area of Virginia, set in the fourteenth century. It is a story primarily about a specific clan, the Greenstone clan and their village, Flat Pearl Village.
The Algonquins were a materlinial society with all property and children belonging to the women. Flat Pearl Village and the Greenstone clan is ruled by an old woman named Hunting Hawk, Her grand daughter, Red Knot, is murdered is murdered in the early morning of the day of her arranged marriage to Copper Thunder. He is a powerful chief of a different tribe. Red Knot loves a young warrior named High Fox, from a neighboring village, Three Myrtle. High Fox is the son of the Weroance of Three Myrtle Village, Black Spike.
Red Knot and High Fox hatch a plot to escape Flat Pearl Village and the arranged marriage to Copper Thunder. They plan to meet early in the morning of the day of her wedding and run away before anyone is able to miss them. Because several of Red Knot's friends know that she plans to run away and meet High Fox, and because High Fox is observed fleeing the scene of the murder, he becomes the most logical suspect. High Fox escapes to Three Myrtle Village where he enlists the aid of a girl, Sun Conch, who also loves him. Sun Conch is not yet a woman but her love for him brings her into the story.
Sun Conch decides the best way to clear High Fox of...
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