Algonquin Sunset: An Algonquin Quest Novel: Book 3

by Rick Revelle

Paperback, 2017

Status

Available

Call number

FIC REV

Call number

FIC REV

Local notes

fiction

Description

Anokì and his sister Pangì Mahingan have grown up, and now face a decision that will change their lives forever. Twelve years after Mahingan was wounded battling for his life against the Haudenosaunee warrior known as Ö:nenhste Erhar (Corn Dog), we rejoin his family and learn what fate held for him. Now, his children, Anokì and Pangì Mahingan, along with their twin cousins Makwa and Wàbek, are grown and have adult responsibilities. Still living with their Algonquin family, they have become a formidable fighting unit with the addition of three Mi´kmaq warriors, E´s, Jilte´g, and the fierce Elue´wiet Ga´qaquj. However, there is danger in the land of the setting sun, and nothing is more dangerous than what the family is going to encounter from the fierce enemy of their new Anishinaabe allies: the Lakȟóta.… (more)

Publication

Dundurn (2017), 304 pages

Original language

English

Language

User reviews

LibraryThing member DeltaQueen50
Set in the 14th century, Algonquin Sunset by Rick Revelle is the third book in a trilogy about a group of Algonquin Indians. Over the course of the three books they have been squeezed out of their Ottawa Valley homelands and pushed westward by the fierce Iroquois. In this volume they join forces
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with some of their Anishinaabe-Ojibwe allies on a retaliation raid on the Lakhota Nadwessioux, who themselves would eventually be pushed out of the Eastern woodlands onto the plains and become known as the Sioux. In this book, we travel around the Great Lakes in lands that would eventually be known as Ontario and Minnesota.

All three of these books have been thoroughly researched and, at the end of the book, we discover than many of the events that are described in this book actually happened. The author is dedicated to passing on his knowledge about the life and warfare of these people and so there is an abundance of historical details about their culture, religion, food preparation and day-to-day life. And although the story unfolds from three different aspects, that of an Algonquin, an Anishinaabe and a Lakhota warriors, it is less a character driven story and more of a historical recreation.

I have enjoyed all three of these engaging adventure stories and I am sorry to see the trilogy come to an end. In these books the author has given us a tantalizing glimpse of the rich history of the First Nations people in an informative, colorful and fascinating manner.
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ISBN

1459737024 / 9781459737020

Barcode

97814597370201
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