Return to the River — Don Coldsmith

The People had prospered for many snows, fattening on the buffalo, but now a white-skinned one returned...with a dangerous trail for the People to follow

RETURN TO THE RIVER

French sergeant Jean Cartier adopted the Elk-Dog band as his own people. But after his beloved Pink Cloud's death, he had returned to the white man's world and abandoned his son Ground Squirrel, whose fate now haunts his dreams. Then explorers arrive at Fort Mishighan seeking a guide to the mysterious Big River. Cartier puts on his buckskins and sets off with them--knowing that the journey will take him to the People and his son. He does not understand the irresistable force driving him to again take on his Indian name of Woodchuck and the ancient ways of the Elk-Dog band. He senses only that his destiny is interwoven with that of the People, and he is the bringer of their destruction...or their chance to survive in a changing land.

THE SPANISH BIT SAGA

Set in the New World of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Don Coldsmith's acclaimed novels re-create a time, a place, and a people that have been nearly lost to history. In The Spanish Bit Saga we see history in the making through the eyes of those proud Native Americans who lived it.