People of the Masks (The First North Americans, Book 10)

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	• People of the Masks (First North Americans) Kathleen O'Neal Gear, W. Michael Gear Forge, 1998 - 416 pages average customer review:based on 24 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

People of the Masks (The First North Americans, Book 10)

I've loved everything I've read by the Gears and I've read just about everything they have published. Wonderful interposing of fiction onto the facts! They use their expertise as anthropologists and as story tellers to combine what really has been found about North American Indians and interpose a very believable story onto it. They really make the past come alive! The inclusion of what has really been found by anthropologists adds tremendously to the books!

Consistent Entertainment

The Gears' continue to both entertain and enlighten with this latest in their series. The characters are as vivid and detailed as I have come to expect from this series and the environmental descriptions bring the reader to stand side by side with the characters. I continue to recommend this series to everyone I know who enjoys not only the past from an historical pov but also a darned good story!

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Worthwhile read!

Once again this is another great book by the Gears. Although a work of fiction it provides insight on the culture and society of early Native Americans. Which I found well researched. Throw in a bit of the supernatural forces and you have another great book by this couple. I have enjoyed every book by them.

Another good story of the possible past

A huge surprise for me. I've always perceived the Native North Americans as a defeated people, on the brink of destruction (mostly because that was the way the today Americans presented the past). This book presents the unknown story of the florishing civillisations of the first Americans - as I've never seen it before. The tale is set in an farther past then that of the conquest - actually, in the period of the Viking discovery of the North American seashore (the Vinland, as they put it).
Two related nations, the Turtle and the Bear, covet the same power child - a dwarf boy named Rumbler, who is known as child of a forest spirit. But if the Turtle clan of "Paint Rock" loves and protects the boy, the Bear "Walksalong" clan - especially the war leader (not a little crazed by his own spirit-power) want the child to help them in war and hunting and will stop at nothing to have the boy.
They utterly destroy the boy's clan and kidnap him - but when warriors begin to die of unknown causes, the matrons of the Walksalong decide they don't want the child anymore and he has to be killed by starvation and cold.
Only a small girl stands by him and ultimately saves him, guiding him back to his relatives.
The fate of the Walksalongs, decided by a prophecy, comes true, despite their best efforts to reject it.
All the characters are profoundly human (or inhuman, in the case of the bad guys). That was superb writing (and the naive - sounding isn't so strong here as in "People of the Lightining"). I couldn't believe the power of this novel - and i'm hoping to get more of the novels of this series.

Highly recommended.

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Love this series

I can't ever wait until the next one comes out. This one didn't dissapoint, espeically since it was talking about my neck of the woods! The Gears are very talented at weaving the fiction and non-fiction together to make a great story.

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This time the Gears begin in the northeastern region of North America known now as New York and Ontario, where nine years earlier an important child was born. His name is Rumbler, though the Elders call him Manitou Child, the name the prophets gave him when they foretold the birth of this one of power. As he nears maturity, many greedy warriors covet the young boy as a weapon to use against their enemies. But none are as ruthless as War Leader Jumping Badger, who murders the boy's mother and burns their village to the ground.Stealing the power child was bloody, but easy enough. Holding onto him is proving to be more than Jumping Badger and his whole village can handle. His warriors are dying one at a time, and it is not long before Rumbler escapes into the frozen forests with the help of 12-year-old Wren, a village girl who has befriended him.A desperate race begins as Jumping Badger pursues the children across the winter landscape of New York and Ontario. He fears the boy's power now and seeks only to kill him. The pair's only hope is to stay alive long enough to find Rumbler's legendary father, known only as The Disowned.

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