Aurora Crossing: A Novel of the Nez Perces

by Karl H. Schlesier

Book Overview

n ancient creation tales of Indian tribes of the American Northwest, nasawaylu, Old Man Coyote, was the spirit who finished the world started by the Supreme Being. A master of animals, holy person, and trickster, nasawaylu sometimes bestowed special gifts on an Indian youth seeking a guardian spirit. But in the 1870s young Nez Perce John Seton struggles to determine whether Coyote's message is a gift or a trick. Reared first in an Anglo township in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896726363
• ISBN13: 9780896726369
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 391 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.2"