Blackfeet Season
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4.5 • 13 Ratings
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Publisher Description
The legacy of America's Native Americans begins with Blackfeet Season.
This award-winning nine-book historical romantic fiction series touches the hearts and souls of readers searching for a deep understanding of several tribes.
It is a season of change for the Blackfeet. The air is crisp with the scents of fall and the coming winter. The tribe's shaman, Bunch of Lodges, is locked in political battle with its chief, Sleeps Too Long. The shaman's sons, Raven's Cry and Night Thunder, are rivals for the right to succeed him as spiritual leader. Complicating the issue--whether spirituality or a warrior's courage is the way to guide the tribe--are White Calf's visions. The young woman's dreams show the buffalo have left their traditional grazing lands. The Blackfeet must find them or they won't survive winter.
White Calf sees a future when her people's land is no longer theirs, when white men have destroyed the buffalo and driven the Blackfeet from their ancestral lands. The tribe expects her to counsel them to follow either the shaman or the chief, but she doesn't know which path leads to a safe future. When she chooses to marry Raven's Cry instead of the shaman, the tribe is split in two. The chief's faction heads for warmer land while Bunch of Lodges leads his people on an ill-fated buffalo hunt.
Aware that only unity will allow the tribe to survive, the shaman's sons and White Calf battle a blizzard while trying to rejoin their people.
Their only guide is a spirit wolf who seems both menace and protector.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A chronicler of the history of Native Americans, Munn (Seminole Song) once again turns to their historic struggle for identity and survival in her new tale of love, courage and family bonds. In the early 1860s, life is precarious for the Blackfoot tribe on the Western plains. Many enemies surround them--the Snakes, the Crow, the Cree and the ever-encroaching white invaders. In this hostile environment, Night Thunder comes of age, participating in his first Sun Dance and achieving warrior status while hunting horses that have been stolen by raiding Snakes. Also jostling for honor and rank is Raven's Cry, Night Thunder's older half-brother. Soon the two find themselves vying for the hand of White Calf, a clairvoyant woman so beautiful it will cost many horses to marry her. The rivalry intensifies and Raven's Cry ultimately succeeds in winning White Calf; Night Thunder finds love with Little Rain, a Cree captive taken in a raid against the Crow. But this happiness is threatened when Little Rain is taken prisoner yet again by the Snakes, and Night Thunder undertakes a desperate journey to find her. Munn details many intriguing aspects of Native American life, including buffalo hunts, practical marriage unions and an immutable code of honor. Articulating more interiority and character development than is sometimes found in this genre, while not sacrificing the requisite action, she sturdily constructs an unpredictable tale.
Customer Reviews
Blackfeet Season
What a wonderful book. I enjoyed reading about the Blackfeet and their history but also the story itself was so very interesting. The four main characters were awesome. I hope to find another book
Wonderful
I was glad that I got a second chance to read this book.