Indian Spirit Man

by J. Leo Baldwin

Overview

A powerful book about the clash of two cultures and its environmental impact. The Takua people lived along the upper Takua River and lake, where chinook, coho, and sockeye salmon had migrated for eons. The tribe had occupied the mouth of the large river ten thousand years ago as the ice caps receded during the last glacier age. As more of the river became open, the people migrated to the upper river, to the beautiful lake where resources were abundant. But in 1936, the CCC camps invaded the Takua forest to build a large hydroelectric dam on the river. When the dam was finally finished, the Takua people lost their lakefront property and were forced to move to a reservation, leaving many of their traditional and holy places lost, now underwater. In Indian Spirit Man, we meet Ahkah, the traditional chief of the Takua tribe, who lives on the Rez in an old school bus with no wheels. Startled from his nap by a vision of the Old Ones and their concerns about the hydroelectric dam, he engages his lifelong lawyer friend to help him appease the ancestors. But he will soon find out there is no resolution except to declare war on the dam...

Product Details

BN ID:	2940151045650
Publisher:	Outskirts Press, Inc.
Publication date:	10/30/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	220
File size:	1 MB
Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

About the Author

J. Leo Baldwin, a journalism graduate at Humboldt State University in California, pioneered to Alaska at the age of 22 for the Baha’i Faith. He met and married Joyce, a Tsimshian Indian of Alaska, and they had four children. In time he became well acquainted with the unique status of American Indians. He was formally adopted into a Tlinget Clan and received the name of Ahkah. His lifelong efforts to teach and promote unity among the tribes of man have led him to write some of the story of American Indians of today. Indian Spirit Man: The Incredible Vision of a Traditional Tribal Chief is his debut novel.