This a very readable and from my research pretty accurate historical novel about life as a Cherokee indian as well as details on the life of Tiana a Cherokee woman and a young Sam Huston.

I get pretty disgusted about the treatment of native Americans especially the Cherokee who were farmers ... not hunters/gathers and had easily adapted to the white American way of life. They had schools, a written language, even a newspaper but still they were not left alone on land given through treaty to them.

Greed of the white immigrant stealing their farms and livestock, moving them further west onto lands of other western indian bands fostering killing between native bands, whiskey sales and false promises and broken treaties...disgusting.

You will meet Tiana, Cherokee mother, Scottish father. You follow her life as a cheeky young girl to a respected "Beloved Woman" in her early 30's. You will meet a young Sam Huston who embraces Cherokee culture. However he is ambitious and suffers from delusion and alcoholism. You want to kick him in the ass for the way his ambition ruins a rather strong love between Tiana and himself.

If you like this book and I am sure you will... then read another book about Sacagawea, a native woman who was the guide for the Lewis and Clarke expedition... it is another read about an amazing Shoshone woman... here is a link to this book http://www.librarything.com/work/146916/book/35240793

I will definitely look for other books by the author, Lucia St. Clair Robinson ( )

This wasn't as exciting to read as "Ride the Wind" , but it was enjoyable.
I am not sure how true to reality this is as Samual Huston is concerned, but it was interesting to read about important people of our American History and see them as the normal people they were.

I cried at the end. ( )