<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>A FRONTIER SAGA WITH A LIBERAL DOSE OF WAR POLITICS AND ROMANCE.</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The western tribes put aside ancient enmities and form</span> <span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>a confederation to oppose the invasion of their lands by the American army and settlers. The</span> <span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>confederation has advantages: control of gold mines and superior weapons supplied by a shadowy</span> <span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Asian people called the Celestials. The confederation of The People is led by the Beothuk who</span> <span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>escaped extinction in their ancient homeland in eastern Canada and settled in the American western</span> <span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>plains.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A fanciful retelling of the frontier story interlaced with a star-crossed love story - an</span> <span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>impressionable army lieutenant and a young Indian girl who is better educated and speaks more</span> <span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>languages than her soldier lover.</span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Well-written and vividly descriptive the reader is swept into the heart the Beothuk village with its customs culture history and storytelling.</em></p>