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Free Excerpt From The Book (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader) In this young readers’ tale, So’qwa—bold, resourceful, and courageous, in the novel, The Circle: One Man’s Odyssey—is captured as a boy by marauding Haida warriors, but in a daring escape from his captors, leaps from a cliff into the ocean. Here in a cave on the forbidding shores of the Pacific Coast, he finds refuge. He rescues an Arapaho girl sold into slavery by her mortal enemy the Pawnee. Brought together by accident, So’qwa and the girl soon realize that their hope for survival lies with each other.Together they defeat enemy warriors attacking a Quinault tribe. But their arrival triggers something far more sinister than the local peoples’ fate. In a matter of weeks, the two are plunged into nightmarish events, far north on the islands of the fierce Haida Indians in search of a captured woman. Pursued by the Haida, they blunder into a dispute between European powers and disaffected Vancouver Island Indians threatening to go to war with the whites. So’qwa is forced to negotiate with the angry Indians before the Europeans will permit him to leave Answering an urge to return home, So’qwa follows the great inland sea southward to his village. He has fought his way out of obscurity on a rugged Pacific coastline and arrived home to become village leader. There, he is challenged once again by the Haida invaders and in the end triumphs over the warrior who captured him so many years before. But others—such as European and American explorers and settlers come in increasing numbers to claim the land, a concept alien to Native Americans. Now So’qwa must reclaim the peoples’ lands and redeem the tribes and himself through an audacious refusal to sign a treaty, which cedes to the whites all but the worthless ground. This becomes his legacy—a crucial role in the co-existence and struggle between white and native races at the far edges of a young America.
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| About the Author | |
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George H. Rogerson was born in Tacoma, Washington, the youngest of four children. He is a retired military officer, a former political analyst, and holds a graduate degree from The Ohio State University. He has four children and lives with his wife in the Midwest. |
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