Peacemaker (Paperback)

In the time before Europeans invade America, the Great Spirit questions the spirituality of his human creations. To measure their faith the Creator sends a teenaged boy down from the Sky World to travel among them. Empowered with a gift for languages, the youth crisscrosses the continent, and through each tribeas story of creation, he learns their beliefs. Throughout his journey of spiritual and cultural discovery, the young medicine man makes many friends and some enemies. Faced with challenges at every turn, he must call upon the world of spirits and dreams to survive one danger after another: wild animals, renegade warriors, evil shamans, ancient monsters, and the merciless Bahana. Beyond an adventure tale about a youthas epic trek across Native America, Peacemaker explores the many diverse native cultures before foreigners tainted and eventually destroyed them. Peacemaker shows how nature and religion dictated the everyday lives of these spiritual people.