Robert Downes
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Brimming with adventure, romance and the peaks and valleys of the human spirit, "The Wolf and The Willow" is a historical novel of first contact between Indigenous peoples and Spanish conquistadors. The book is the prequel to "Windigo Moon," Robert Downes's 2017 novel of the Anishinaabek.
Willow, a house slave of Black and Arab descent is swept into the 1528 expedition of conquistador Panfilo de Narvaez, who hoped to colonize Florida and find native...
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The great love of Blue Heron and Red Bear sustain an Ojibwe clan as it struggles to survive war, famine, and the coming of foreign explorers bearing deadly diseases. The blood feud between two rival warriors over the love of Ashagi, a strong-willed woman of great beauty and greater determination threads through this story of one Ojibwe clan on the cusp of great change. A young woman from a peaceful village, Ashagi (Blue Heron) is abducted in a raid...
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RAW DEAL explores the theft of Native lands by squatters, speculators, unfair treaties and blatant swindles, focusing on the Indians of the Midwest and the Great Lakes.
Although Indian lands were paid for with hard cash and services provided by the U.S. government, it was always for pennies per acre, backed by the threat of removal at the point of bayonets, sabers and guns wielded by government troops and violent militias. Native peoples who bowed...