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Searching for Red Eagle: A Personal Journey Into the Spirit World of Native America

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An indirect descendant of Weatherford, Wells set out on a mystical journey to find him and her own identity. If my path was true, she says, I would know that hope can be reborn from deepest despair, and that, in the rebirth, each of us can choose who and what we will be. Weatherford was born c. 1775 to membership in his grandmother's Wind clan of the Alabama (Creek) tribe, the son of a mixed-blood mother and a prosperous Scots trader. Declared by his grandmother to have a special spiritual gift, he was sheltered from the Euro-American educational system and as a young man earned the name Red Eagle. Wells, born in south Mississippi to a family of Choctaw mixed-bloods, was made to feel different and unwelcome in mainstream society. In writing this book she sets forth to identify herself by a spiritual link with her kinsman and to understand his leadership in the Creek War of 1813-14.

From exhaustive research and oral family stories she describes daily life and thinking among southeastern Indians in the Creek confederacy, and with her vivid insider perspective she recounts the historical facts. The cast of characters includes Andrew Jackson, Davy Crockett, Tecumseh, Seekaboo, and runaway slaves. Shifting between historical episodes and the present, Wells pursues the true story of Red Eagle. Her suspenseful prose gives a visceral sense of how Indians felt as victims of the American government and of how they had no recourse but to fight. As her narrative progresses, Wells is transported in time and place, and alongside Weatherford she watches the Creek War unfold-with traditional Indian values and morals caught in the maelstrom. She expresses first-hand anguish as the war plays out with devastating effects on native tribes.

Like the classic Black Elk Speaks, Wells's Searching for Red Eagle is a window on American Indian thought, spirituality, and philosophy.

Mary Ann Wells lives in Taos, New Mexico. She is the author of Native Land: Mississippi, 1540-1798 (University Press of Mississippi) and editor of Sacred World, an interdisciplinary journal of American Indian religion and spirituality


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  • ISBN-13: 9781578060306
  • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
  • ISBN-10: 1578060303
  • Publisher Date: 01 Oct 1998


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