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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