Prehistoric - Ancient Native American fiction
Explore captivating prehistoric Native American fiction with our curated list of ancient books. Dive into rich storytelling and historical adventures from America's earliest cultures.
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People of the Sea
by W. Michael Gear
The story of life and love, death and adventure in North America eleven thousand years ago.
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People of the Silence
by Kathleen O'Neal Gear
In 1150, the Great Sun Chief of the Anasazi people learns that his wife has given birth to the child of another man, and now that daughter, Cornsilk, with the help of a young man named Poor Singer, must flee the wrath of the Great Sun Chief.
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People of the Masks
by Kathleen O'Neal Gear
The archaeologists/authors continue to entertain an avid international audience with their rousing historical epic of adventure, triumph, and heartbreak of the pre-Columbian peoples who struggled to make this great continent their home.
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People of the Owl
by Kathleen O'Neal Gear
Recounts the story of the trading empire of Poverty Port, Louisiana, of 3500 years ago, during which warrior and shaman Salamander experiences a vision that shapes the destiny of his people.
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People of the Nightland (North America's Forgotten Past, Book Fourteen)
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People of the Weeping Eye
by W. Michael Gear
In this epic tale of survival set in Paleolithic America, the authors of "People of the Nightland" bring readers to the banks of the great Mississippi River more than one thousand years ago.
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People of the Thunder
by W. Michael Gear
By 1300 AD, the Sky Hand people had crushed and enslaved the Albaamaha people and built their high-walled capital, Split Sky City, to dominate towns up and down the Black Warrior River. But a violent wind is brewing that may topple the city's mighty walls. Great armies are on the march, and a cunning new leader, Smoke Shield, has risen. He will lead the Sky Hand people either to stunning triumph or to bloody doom. Old White, Trader, and the mystical Two Petals are journeying across the Choctaw lands straight into the chaos. Old White, the Seeker, must play a delicate game of espionage. For Trader the slightest indiscretion--let alone the temptation of forbidden love--could lead to disaster. Two Petals, the Contrary, faces the toughest choice of all : She must betray herself and her friends to Smoke Shield or live forever in the backward grip of madness. And Spirit Power has laid a far deadlier trap for them in the rainbow colors just beneath the rolling surface of the Black Warrior River. A novel of desperate political intrigue and spiritual power, People of the Thunder once again demonstrates the Gears' mastery of American prehistory. Explore the ancestral heritage of the Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek and Yuchi peoples as the majesty and genius of the vanished Mississippian mound builders' civilization comes to life.
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Bone Walker
by Kathleen O'Neal Gear
A web of evil that spans eight hundred years draws modern-day archaeologist Dusty Stewart and Maureen Cole into an investigation of a murder by the Wolf Witch, a probe that leads Dusty on a disturbing quest into his own past.
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Picture Maker
by Penina Keen Spinka
A brilliant, powerful, historical saga -- a grand epic by a prize-winning children's author. The world of 14th-century America is unknown to most readers and Penina Spinka's remarkable novel brings it triumphantly alive, from the tribal wars through to the Norse invasions and the fiercely resisted Christianity. The girl known as Picture Maker because of her great ability at drawing and prophecy, is the daughter of one of the warriors and the granddaughter of the clan leader. She is captured by one of her family's enemies and because she was regarded as a trophy is kept alive and enslaved. When she discovers she is pregnant by one of her captors, she manages to escape, and, inspired by the destiny she had depicted, begins the long, mysterious journey which ends in the furthermost parts of the Western Hemisphere. There, still an outsider but revered and protected, she lives for a time in peace with an Inuit tribe until she meets and falls in love with Halvard, a Norse hunter, who seems to hold the key to the riddle of her birth. Together they travel on to Greenland but Picture Maker's special gifts make her regarded with suspicion, Halvard is attacked and her daughter will be taken f
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Dream Weaver
by Penina Keen Spinka
The epic story of "Picture Maker" continues as Keen Spinka once again sweeps readers back a thousand years to a time when the Vikings cross the vast oceans to the majestic wilds of North America.
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Voice of the Eagle
by Linda Lay Shuler
In the sequel to She Who Remembers, Kwani returns to the Cicuye village as the wife of Tolonqua, a hunting chief in the 13th century.
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It Sleeps in Me
by Kathleen O'Neal Gear
The "USA Today" bestselling author of "People of the Moon" spins a prehistorical tale of erotic passion in which a Native American High Chieftess struggles with the spirit of her greatest lover.
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The Ocean Tribe
by Charlotte Prentiss
Here was an ancient land of beauty and bloodshed... Turning away from warfare and superstition, Kori and her husband, Uroh, left their people to found the Ocean Tribe, a group of peace-loving wanderers turned fishermen and hunters. Led by a strong and beautiful female warrior, protected by the mysterious sea, they had no enemies. Or so Kori thought. Yet a bitter foe lies deep within the tribe itself, poised to strike. The tribe's peaceful existence begins to crumble when a stranger named Werror appears, seeking refuge after ruthless fighters decimate his village. Skilled and clever, this powerful man both captivates and disturbs Kori. Little does she know that he is about to lead her into the ultimate betrayal...and a battle for survival that will shatter everything she believes about herself and her world.
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Keeper of the Stone
by Margaret Allan
A beautiful outcast woman in a passionate epic of prehistoric America--the sequel to The Mammoth Stone. The legend of the powers of the mammoth stone continues with the torrid ostracizing of Maya, the Shaman and keeper of the stone. An intensely dramatic and highly erotic story set in the prehistoric American Southwest.