Red Men — White Names
America's Forgotten Peoples
by Stalking Wolf
The People of One Fire had survived in the Carolina’s for over 10,000 years, would the flood of European settlers drown them or would the Great Spirit provide a method of salvation? Will a simple Native American retain his belief that all Two-Hairs are evil, or will he come to realize that there are good and bad in all peoples? The good try to follow God as they understand him to be.
"This work is historical fiction. I have used the Pee Dee people as the principal characters because they are my heritage, a heritage of which I am extremely proud.
There are and were 100s if not 1000s of Native American peoples that could have been used, especially all along the Eastern Seaboard.
As the settlers swept across the land, many Native peoples died from contact with European diseases to which they had no immunity. Others were killed by greedy settlers to remove them from their land. Still others moved to avoid further contact with the settlers.
The government later tried to ship the remainder west of the Mississippi. This attempt failed miserably. Many Native Americans had already learned a method of survival. They assimilated into the settler’s world, with the help of people that understood that they were not savages or soul-less and that they had a right to remain in the land of their birth.
How all Natives got European surnames is not known, but it is known that traveling missionaries, slave-owners and government officials did name many. Intermarriage would have accounted for more.
Many of the surnames in this novel are now strongly tied to Native peoples of the Southeastern United States, especially North and South Carolina. Any similarities of these names to an actual person are purely coincidental, and not meant to represent anyone." — Stalking Wolf
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88 pages,6" x 9"
ISBN: 978-1-61170-012-1
Published by: Robertson Publishing (RP)
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