This is a story about strong Native women; push them and they will push back stronger, quicker and with a sharp object. Every year hundreds of Native Women are murdered or go missing on Turtle Island. This is a story of a secret group of Native women known as the 650-year-old Elk Whistle Warrior Society. They are lawyers, teachers, social workers, safe house operators, clean up crews. They do not use guns, only the weapons of their ancestors. They instil fear in gangs, cartel members, murderers, and abusers of children. They hunt down human traffickers and those who have harmed their Grandmothers, Mothers, Sisters, Aunties and Daughters. In the quest to seek out the abusers of Native children in particular ... they are relentless.

It was 650 years ago, on the shores of Sewitakan Zaaga ́igan (see-wit-akan saw-ga-e-kan: Salt Lake) now known as Big Quill Lake in central Saskatchewan, east of Saskatoon, a group of young Anishinaabe and Cree teenagers made a life-changing decision. The two young women, who went by the names Wâpikwan (wah-pi-kwan: Flower) and Gidagizi Gidagaakoons (ged a gay zay Ged ah ga cones: Spotted Fawn), decided to start a warrior group led by females who would look after and defend the women and children of their bands with the aid of selected male warriors. That night on the shores of the Salt Lake they tattooed their bodies. The boys with two crossed feathers on their left calves, the girls with the same feathers on their right shoulders. The feathers signified the strength of the sexes held together and led by women. They named their group in the Ani-shi-na-abe language Omashkooz Gwiishkoshim Ogichidaa (o mush koos gwish ko shim o gich e dah) and in Cree they were called Wâwâskêsiw Kwêskosîwin Nôtinkêwiýiniw. In the gichi-mookomaan (white man's) tongue they are known as the Elk Whistle Warrior Society.

This novel follows the story of a warrior named Mahingan and his family as they live the traditional Algonquin way of life long before Europeans arrived in North America. Hunting and warfare are daily concerns, and signs point to a defining conflict between Mahingan's nation and its enemies.

Algonquin Legacy starts out about 15 years after the Battle of Crow Wing River where the combined allies of the Anishinaabe had fought the powerful nation of the Lakota in the Lakota home lands. The battle ended abruptly when there was a solar eclipse of the sun. This was an actual event that took place on July 16th 1330 from 1:03 to 3:10 PM in the area where they were fighting. The warriors on both sides thought it was a omen and both parties retreated. *When the Anishinaabe returned to their village the decision was made to go towards the western sun to settle. This decision came at great cost to the surviving family unit of the late Om�miwinini (Algonquin) leader Mahingan. His son and daughter and the great Mi�kmaq warrior, Crazy Crow went to the west with the Anishinaabe and Mahingan's wife and nephews along with their wives, friends and his brother Mitigomij the greatest warrior of them all who was also a shape shifter travelled back to their homelands along the Kitcis�pi Kitchi (Ottawa River). This split up a very strong family. * Algonquin Legacy now finds the Anishinaabe people and their allies, who had come with them from the Eastern Lands of Turtle Island, now living in what is now Manitoba. They have made quick allies with their old trading partners the Omashkiigoo the Cree. Their languages, plus people have become inter webbed in marriage, hunting and warfare against the Ayaaj--inini (Blackfoot). * The opening chapter finds Anok� the son of Mahingan hunting with his two children W�pikwan (wah--pi--kwan -- Flower) and M�so (moo--so - Moose). Their mother is a Cree woman whose name is Osk--�skw�w (Young Woman). In this chapter the three of them have to survive an early winter blizzard with ingenuity and good luck. *Upon their return they have found that their good friend Eli'tuat Ga�qaquis (ga--ah - gooch el-- e--do--what: Crazy Crow) has been captured by the Blackfoot. * The story continues from here with Crazy Crow's rescue, plus an unexpected reunion. Crazy Crow makes a new friend, a Cheyenne Dog Soldier, �k?hkev�'omaestse (Oak--key--whoa--a--mast) known as White Crow and a new fierce enemy ��ksspitaawa Ki��yo (iik--sspitaa--wa ke--i--o: He is Very Tall Bear) the leader of a group of Blackfoot people. The story takes the reader into a Blackfoot village as they try to survive a fierce winter and then go on a buffalo hunt in the spring. The Blackfoot and Anishinaabe survive a tornado with one group suffering more than the other. This novel continues on in the tradition of the previous three with Native languages in the vernacular, teachings about the culture of that era, hunting practices and how they lived day to day. Live before the Europeans, before the Four Horsemen of the Native Apocalypse came into their lives; Disease, Alcohol, Guns and Religion.

Reveals the life of Lakota healer Nicholas Black Elk as he led his tribe's battle against white settlers who threatened their homes and buffalo herds, and describes the victories and tragedies at Little Bighorn and Wounded Knee. Reprint.

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