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Print: $43.00 This book contains thousands of names of historical Shawnee figures both great and small, providing information on their lineages, clans, political divisions, treaties signed and battles fought. The entries are the result of many years of painstaking research in an area where birth, marriage and death certificates, wills and such are seldom available. An Appendix by Noel Schutz, a student of the eminent Shawnee linguist the late Charles F. Voegelin, provides a description of the Shawnee naming system and social organization (clans, phratries and divisions). In addition, endnotes offer an analysis of the meaning and clan affiliations of many Shawnee names. This work is a valuable resource for scholars and laymen alike. It is a must for those who have Native American roots it provides genealogical information on ancestors and their descendants. Second Edition. Contact Don Greene here
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Print: $22.46 Download: $6.00 DEMONBANE begins with an odd seer proclaiming that an outcast maiden named Elandriel will save the land from the iron fist of the Demon Master who has placed the kingdom under a dreadful curse. As Elandriel’s mystic gifts unfold, she undertakes her quest, joined by a motley band of companions. Her mystic gifts continue to burgeon with each battle fought until she is consecrated in her calling by the blessings of Queen Ethyriel in the legendary land of Idannu.
Elandriel, like all of us in our more commonplace lives, must bear the harsh realities of existence. Ultimately, Elandriel comes to realize the source of suffering is the evil of this world and what her own destiny is to be: The higher the calling, the greater the sacrifice; the greater the sacrifice, the more severe the suffering; the more severe the suffering, the more glorious the destiny. Elandriel is, as are all history’s exceptional luminaries, a beacon to light the shadowed paths we tread.
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Print: $30.25 Download: $6.50 YÜ LAN JEI COMES HOME is a story of mysticism and faith in a small native village. The young woman Yü Lan Jei returns home from years abroad to find the villagers cursed by a cabal of sorcerers empowered by demonic spirits. Uncovering the identity of the evil doers, Yü Lan thinks about running away from the village. However, she finds no place to hide from the realities of her calling and surrenders to her fate. She makes great sacrifices as she wages a lone battle against the unseen wicked forces, bears the scorn of the deluded villagers and the malice of the evil sorcerers. Undaunted, she embraces the unbearable demands of her effort as she pits her burgeoning unfolding spiritual gifts against those who seek to destroy her.
Can Yü Lan be victorious in defeating the mighty sorcerers? Can she redeem the land and unloosen the souls of the villagers enslaved by darkness?
Judy K. L. Wu is an indigenous writer of the Bunun Formosan tribe in Taiwan.
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Print: $20.42 Download: $5.50 THUNDER MAIDEN is the second book in the fantasy series The Gondawyn Apocalypse. It continues the saga of Elandriel, a village maiden chosen to use her unfolding mystic gifts to battle against Makir, the evil overlord of the Kingdom of Gondawyn called the Demon Master. Leaving the splendor of Idannu where she was pronounced a Thunder Maiden, Elandriel and her companions join the only remaining prince of the House of Davon, Prince Jarell, to embark on an odyssey to cast down all the horrors that enslave Gondawyn and cast out the spells that mesmerize the inhabitants. It has been decreed that she must battle the evil that lurks in all the corners of the land before coming face to face with the Demon Master before his altar of sacrifice in the hidden labyrinths beneath the impenetrable fortress of Moyrah-haddan.
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Print: $33.48 Download: $7.50 This is the second volume in the series of Shawnee Heritage books by Don Greene. In this volume, Don traces the lineages of some prominent Shawnee, including Cornstalk, Tecumseh and many others. His research reveals relationships by intermarriage and adoption of the Shawnee with a number of other Native American nations, such as the Powhatan, Cherokee and Creek. This work pulls together the entries from Shawnee Heritage I, updates them, and puts them in a coherent genealogical framework. This is a valuable book for those with Native American roots, an interest in all things Shawnee or as an aid in scholarly research. Several appendices provide a linguistic, cultural and historical context and present Don's view of the rich Heritage of the Shawnee.
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On the Desks
of our Authors
DON GREENE is currently compiling an index for Shawnee
Heritage that will be available for free download on History ePublications. This
download will also include revisions of entries until a new edition of the work
is published. Also nearly completion is Shawnee Heritage II in
which famous Shawnee historic personages are highlighted with bios, genealogies
and other information. A third volume is also on his desk. Don has had a few
poems, stories and articles published in various publications, from labor
papers to poetry and ancient history magazines and a long series of letters to
the editors of several West Virginia papers. Don has written over five hundred
columns for the "Communicator" from Clay County West Virginia and
continues the bi-weekly column, addressing everything from national politics to
Shawnee history. Please visit his column under Don Greene-the WV Radical at www.claywestvirgina.com to see
some of Don's rambling thoughts.
About Don Greene
You can
read more about Done Greene at Vision ePublications.com on Don Green's
Page.
Visit the site and learn more about his life and times.
Judy K. L. Wu is the co
publisher of Vision ePublications. She has worked with her partner Noel Schutz
for many years to complete the epic fantasy novels Demonbane (published)
and Thunder Maiden (in its final editing stage). Her own novelette or faith
and mysticism, Yu Lan Jei Comes Home, has just been published. The have
also begun the final novel in The Gondawyn Apocalypse called Doom
Slayer. Judy has been a frequent LTTE contributor for two of the English
language newspapers in Taiwan mostly concerned with the plight of Native
Formosan tribes and political commentary from the perspective of a member of
the Bunun tribe. The following is a sample that can be read online from the
Taipei Times: Unheard Cries of Dispair.
You can read about the upcoming works at the Fantasy ePublications and Spirit ePublications websites.
About Judy K. L. Wu
You can read more about Judy K. L. Wu on the Vision
ePublications.com About Page and
a couple of her Letters to the Editor on her Selections
Page.
Noel Schutz
is the publisher of Vision ePublications that he operates along with his
co-publisher and partner Judy Wu. He is currently working editing the sequel to
Demonbane and the third volume in The Gondawyn
Apocalypse with Judy Wu. He has written an Introduction to Don
Greene’s Shawnee Heritage and provided the linguistic analysis of the
meaning as best as can be determined for hundreds of Shawnee names. Noel is now
updating and recasting his 1975 Ph.D. dissertation, Shawnee Myth in and
Ethnographic and Ethnohistorical Perspective in two volumes: Shawnee
Traditions – A Separate Covenant and Shawnee Migrations – A
Restless People. His longer range project is a series of two novels, Wilderness
Covenant and Wilderness Renegade, on the lives of the courier de bois, Martin Chartier and his
Metis son, Peter. Noel has published over two dozen articles, monographs and
books in linguistics, anthropology and English as a Second Language (ESL). He
publishes the Shawnee
Traditions.com site and operates it along with Don Greene and is an
Associate Professor at National Chi Nan University in the mountains of central
Taiwan..
About Noel Schutz
You can read more about Noel on the About Page at Vision
ePublications.com and some of his Shawnee material and essays on Shawnee Traditions.com.
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