Jennifer Priel thought she was an average young woman until the night her friend Ashley decides to explore forbidden territory. In the search for her friend, she stumbles upon the Blood Wolf Hunters and the sinister truth of her past. Jennifer will soon face the crossroad of her life. As she veers down a dangerous path, she must make the choice on whether or not to accept what she has become or to deny what she is. The Blood Wolves are on the verge of coming out. More is at stake than meets the eye. Jennifer must stop the fight before it costs the lives of those she loves. She is the key, but can she face her own inner demons and be strong enough to end the war? An ancient soul waits in the shadows, and everything is on the line in this battlefield.

My Book is about becoming a SPIRITUAL CHANGE in this world. But first we must become a change within our selves. We, as individuals hold the key to change within our own spiritual blueprint we came to earth with. We are spiritual beings living in the material world, to experience life and to grow by resolving blocks in our minds. We come to earth to learn what we need and to rise in consciousness. God has many mansions, and we are looking to increase our ability to receive more of God's light. The pain of life is only for us to learn from, and rise above. When we rise above, we can receive more of God's light. When we see life differently, when we see the true value of what we can become, we no longer fear life. We experience it and grow and become more.

One of the first known novels by a Native American woman, Cogewea (1927) is the story of a half-blood girl caught between the worlds of Anglo ranchers and full-blood reservation Indians; between the craven and false-hearted easterner Alfred Densmore and James LaGrinder, a half-blood cowboy and the best rider on the Flathead; between book learning and the folk wisdom of her full-blood grandmother. The book combines authentic Indian lore with the circumstance and dialogue of a popular romance; in its language, it shows a self-taught writer attempting to come to terms with the rift between formal written style and the comfort-able rhythms and slang of familiar speech. Mourning Dove, the author of Cogewea, was an Okanogan of eastern Washington. She lived as a migrant farmworker and, after ten-hour days in the hop fields and apple orchards, faithfully returned to the battered typewriter in her tent. Lucullus Virgil McWhorter, a respected and sympathetic student of Indian lore and history, encouraged her in her ambition to be a writer; finally she made her book a record of the folklore of the Okanogan tribe, a plea for the welfare of the half-blood, and above all the testimony to her own singleminded dedication.

Jennifer Priel thought she was an average young woman until the night her friend Ashley decides to explore forbidden territory. In the search for her friend, she stumbles upon the Blood Wolf Hunters and the sinister truth of her past. Jennifer will soon face the crossroad of her life. As she veers down a dangerous path, she must make the choice on whether or not to accept what she has become or to deny what she is. The Blood Wolves are on the verge of coming out. More is at stake than meets the eye. Jennifer must stop the fight before it costs the lives of those she loves. She is the key, but can she face her own inner demons and be strong enough to end the war? An ancient soul waits in the shadows, and everything is on the line in this battlefield.

My Book is about becoming a SPIRITUAL CHANGE in this world. But first we must become a change within our selves. We, as individuals hold the key to change within our own spiritual blueprint we came to earth with. We are spiritual beings living in the material world, to experience life and to grow by resolving blocks in our minds. We come to earth to learn what we need and to rise in consciousness. God has many mansions, and we are looking to increase our ability to receive more of God's light. The pain of life is only for us to learn from, and rise above. When we rise above, we can receive more of God's light. When we see life differently, when we see the true value of what we can become, we no longer fear life. We experience it and grow and become more.

A powerful force and yet the butt of humor, the coyote figure runs through the folklore of many American Indian tribes. He can be held up as a "terrible example" of conduct, a model of what not to do, and yet admired for a careless. anarchistic energy that suggests unlimited possibilities. Mourning Dove, an Okanagan, knew him well from the legends handed down by her people. She preserved them for posterity in "Coyote Stories," originally published in 1933.

Here is Coyote, the trickster, the selfish individualist, the imitator, the protean character who indifferently puts the finishing touches on a world soon to receive human beings. And here is Mole, his long-suffering wife, and all the other Animal People, including Fox, Chipmunk, Owl-Woman, Rattlesnake, Grizzly Bear, Porcupine, and Chickadee. Here it is revealed why Skunk's tail is black and white, why Spider has such long legs, why Badger is so humble, and why Mosquito bites people. These entertaining, psychologically compelling stories will be welcomed by a wide spectrum of readers.

Jay Miller has supplied an introduction and notes for this Bison Books edition and restored chapters that were deleted from the original.

Mourning Dove was the pen name of Christine Quintasket, a member of the Colville Federated Tribes of eastern Washington State. She was the author of Cogewea, The Half-Blood (one of the first novels to be published by a Native American woman) and Coyote Stories, both reprinted as Bison Books. Jay Miller, formerly assistant director and editor at the D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian, Newberry Library, Chicago, now is an independent scholar and writer in Seattle. He is the compiler of Earthmaker: Tribal Stories from Native North America.