The story of KûySyân Joshua tracks two diverse ways of life: Kiowa and white. In 1851, Lana Cooper, a white woman, makes achoice to live with her Kiowa husband, Two Hawks, thus keeping her family fromknowing she’s alive. While the westernfrontier brews in hostilities between indigenous tribes and bluecoats, backeast, the country is divided by Civil War. When the war ends, Lana’s first husband Liam O’Connell finds himself onthe losing side and must somehow piece his world back together. These two lives dance and weave around eachother, bringing them closer and closer to the truth, while Lana and Two Hawksfight to keep their family alive on the high plains of Texas.
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The Story Behind This Book
Native Americans - especially the Plains tribes - have always fascinated me. They are struggling today to preserve their language and culture, and to tell their stories. I have done extensive research on the Kiowa tribe in order to bring readers some of their rich, tragic and proud history.
Praise and Reviews
Black Wolf Books presents another authentically written novel by
Magnolia Belle. Her novel Kuy Syan Joshua is a welcomed classic to the
prolific writer's collection of books in this series set in the late
1800's. Centered around the American Native Kiowa people and lands, she
employs genuine details and descriptions unique to the people who live
there.
Her eclectic ability to incorporate rich characters drenched in
native culture while drawing in the quality of foreign presence provides
an interesting backdrop which she brilliantly weaves into several plot
lines.
Two Hawks and Lana share a romance while he and his father Many
Deer emerge as focal characters. T `on Ma is present in this novel and
her story continues with Two Hawks asking her why she married Liam. For
those who read the preceding novel T' on Ma, this novel is a satisfying
sequel, especially if you longed to see T `on Ma and Two Hawks end up
together and were saddened by T `on Ma's decision in the earlier novel.
Other Native characters develop such as Gray Dove, Red Flint, Chief
Kicking bird, Corn Flower, Broken Flute, White Dog, Little Rain, Bent
Fox, Little Bow, Iron Crow, Big Elk and like the novel T `on Ma which
focused on foreigners crossing paths with natives, this novel also
shares that quality.
Some of the foreign characters are Liam, Jason, Maeve, Patrick O
Connell, Sr, Captan Mcclellan, Becca, Lana, Mr and Mrs. Blake, Mitchell,
Deborah, Sheila, Eric, Billy.
T `on Ma's sons, Blue and Kûy Syân Joshua are central and integral
to the story. It is filled with unexpected, suspenseful and sad moments
between them. T' on Ma and Two Hawks share Christmas and they are able
to overcome the difficulties that separated them in the prior novel;
however, true to life a new set of struggles emerge and the characters
of this novel must discover their way through the dangers, prejudices,
and harsh living of the wild land.
This was an exceptional read and I have become a fan of Magnolia Belle's Native American T'on Ma series, by Black Wolf Books.
5 stars
