ASIN: B00546C0Q2
Publisher: Oleta Stewart Toliver
Pages: 408
Santa Apache is an exciting novel about an Indian medicine woman whose adventures in healing influence the development of the Southwest in the 18th century. While dancing with joyful abandon after her coming of age ceremony, a beautiful Indian maiden is captured by hostile Indians. The Apache girl escapes only to be lost, injured and hungry. MeiLi's peaceful life changes into one of danger and loss made endurable only by the healing skills learned from her medicine woman mother and the shamanic strengths passed down to her by her grandmother. The evil brave recaptures her, rapes her, and takes her to Pecos Pueblo as a slave. After two years of cruelty from a maddened crone, the girl is rescued by a Spanish rancher, Don Carlos de Vega. Her new life is filled with difficulty learning to exist in a new culture and surrounded by Catholicism while following her determination to remain ...
