People of the Water: A novella of the events leading to the Bloody Island Massacre of 1850

The "People of the Water" is a story of one culture's love of life and the world around them. Through words, Kathleen Scavone paints a picture that time-travels the reader back to a Clear Lake Pomo village in the mid 1800's. Through her own experience living on the land, she is able to weave into her story the natural beauty, wildlife, geology, and ecology of California's North Coast Range mountains and valleys as they are experienced for the first time by her two young main characters. Her extensive background research allows her to present actual Native American cultural traditions, technologies, beliefs, and knowledge as they would have been learned and experienced by these young characters. The arrival of Europeans and their disrupting interaction with the Indigenous People is explored as seen from the perspective of the Native Culture.Though some of the actual events and experiences in the story are fictionalized, this is done only to provide a narrative flow as seen from the viewpoint of the main characters. All of the events and experiences outlined in the story are based on actual knowledge of Clear Lake Pomo culture as provided by tribal elders that were interviewed by ethnographers in the late 1800's and early 1900's. This story is a "must read" for anyone wanting to understand Native California lifeways just before the European invasion and the disruption that followed.

• • Author: Kathleen Scavone
• • Publisher: Bradford Creek Publishing Company
• • Publication Date: March 04, 2021
• • Number of Pages: 105 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 0967398193
• • ISBN-13: 9780967398198