Friday, April 29, 2022

Talks Like Thunder Red With Native Blood, Book One by Randal Nerhus & Marjorie Carter


 
by Randal Nerhus & Marjorie Carter

A Native American seer and shaman pens a powerful YA novel based on a vision of an 1870s Apache battle.

An inspiring story of resilience, grit, and perseverance of a young female Apache warrior.

When a young White Mountain Apache girl is taken from her village in the Arizona territory by her estranged grandfather, a “nantan” or chief of the Three Hills Chiricahua, she becomes a rare female warrior, falls in love, and learns the ways of their ancient beliefs and traditions. After her tribespeople and their land are overtaken by “white-eyes,” a horrifying event spurs her future to one of avenging honor and reuniting her people. Red With Native Blood is a novella trilogy written by the late Marjorie Carter, a Native American seer and shaman of Cherokee descent, and co-authored by writer Randal Nerhus.

 Red With Native Blood will tear at your heart and take your soul on an emotional mission.”

Dennis Banks, 1937-2017, co-founder of the American Indian Movement.

 

“It’s a wonderful story, and you’ve done a wonderful job telling it.”

Bill Thompson, editor of Stephen King’s Carrie, and John Grisham’s A Time to Kill.

 

Red With Native Blood is profoundly moving, meticulously researched, poetic, passionate, stirring, and a true American epic.”

Maureen Earl, author of Boat of Stone and Gulliver Quick. 

The first novella in the Red With Native Blood series, Talks Like Thunder, is available now on Kindle  https://www.amzn.com/B09TSRHBMB

The audiobook is available on Audible.

In the second novella, Falling Star, Thunder meets a Cheyenne girl Falling Star and they forge a friendship in their harrowing journey to escape the white-eyes. Falling Star is available on Kindle https://www.amzn.com/B09XLNZ524 o and set to be released on Audible in June.

Red With Native Blood’s incredible culmination in the third and last novella of the trilogy, Singing Wind, the story of a young Lakota girl named Singing Wind who meets Thunder and Falling Star, all hoping to start a new life. Singing Wind will be released on Kindle in July and Audible in August.

Randal Nerhus received a BS in Agricultural Studies from Iowa State University in 1982, and an MA in Oriental Philosophy and Religion from Banaras Hindu University, India, in 1988. Shortly after obtaining his agriculture degree, he volunteered with the Peace Corps in the Philippines. While traveling in the mountains on the island of Palawan, he visited a remote tribal village and encountered a very different way of life—one of community, contentment, happiness, and love. Fifteen years later, his interest in tribal traditions deepened while taking part in a ManKind Project initiation that used native approaches to bring men into a life of integrity. In 2002, Marjorie Carter took him under her shamanic guidance which complemented and expanded upon his early Christian foundations. From 2013 to 2016, he lived in Colombia’s Amazon jungle, learning under Cocama shaman don Rogelio Cariguasari, and relevant parts of that experience were incorporated into the novel.

 

Marjorie Carter was born in Salem, Missouri, on July 17, 1937. Of Cherokee descent, she learned the traditional ways of her relatives from early childhood. During the eighth grade, she was forced to leave school to work and provide for her younger brothers. At the age of nineteen, she moved to Texas and began her careers in the restaurant and real estate businesses. During her life, she was diagnosed with seven different cancers and fought against melanoma for twenty-five years. A Native American seer and shaman, she had a passion for art, poetry, and stories. She wrote at her ranch near San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, hoping that Red With Native Blood would help reservation students embrace their heritage. Marjorie died of pneumonia on July 12, 2004.

 

You can find more information about the Red With Native Blood series at: https://randalnerhus.com





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