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008			170414s2017 xx 000 1 eng d
010			_a2017947637
020			_a1943075360
020			_a9781943075362
040			_aYDX _beng _cYDX _dBDX _dEYH _dMiTN
050		4	_aPS3604 .O964 _bW5 2017
100	1		_aDownes, Robert, _d1952-
245	1	0	_aWindigo Moon : _ba novel of Native America / _cRobert Downes.
260			_aSt. Louis, MO : _bBlank Slate Press, _c2017.
300			_a304 pages : _bmap ; _c23 cm.
336			_atext _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier.
520			_aThe 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 conducted by the Sioux, the ancestral enemies of her clan, and made a concubine of a fat, slovenly chief who already has two wives. When she is rescued by Misko (Red Bear), an Ojibwe youth, the two fall in love and a lifelong bond is formed. But Nika, Misko's rival, demands that Misko surrender Ashagi to replace his brother who was killed during a raid involving the young warriors' two clans. As Nika's pride and obsession with Ashagi eats away at his sanity, greater danger for the whole Ojibwe way of life creeps ever closer. Warfare, vengeance, supernatural monsters, and strange spirits all claw at the edges of this love triangle, but the power of the clan and the love of family and tradition helps sustain a culture on the verge of harrowing times. Beginning in 1588 and spanning twenty-five years, WINDIGO MOON encompasses warring tribes of the Upper Great Lakes, the onset of the Little Ice Age of the 1600s, the diseases introduced by foreign explorers, and, always and forever, the great love of Blue Heron and Red Bear.
650		0	_aIndians of North America _zGreat Lakes (North America) _vFiction.
650		0	_aMan-woman relationships _vFiction.
650		0	_aOjibwa Indians _vFiction.
655		7	_aHistorical fiction. _2lcgft.
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