Author : Richard DeSirey
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781976355547
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Book Synopsis Morning Star, Let Us Make a New Way by : Richard DeSirey
Download or read book Morning Star, Let Us Make a New Way written by Richard DeSirey and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin Cooper bears witness, from his early days in Denver City as a child, through his adult life as an Army officer, to his government's relationship with a tribe he comes to know well. As the years unfold, he is unsettled by a strong spiritual pull to recognize the Cheyenne people's prayerful relationship with the Creator. Frighteningly, as he holds a bible, which he has considered the sacred guide that was shaping his country's manifest destiny, he comes to recognize another manifest destiny taking shape in the tribe being decimated. Trembling, at times, with the impact of this insight, he draws closer to the old man chief of the Cheyenne Tribe, known outside the tribe as Dull Knife and known to his people as Morning Star. Against all odds, he becomes driven to try to protect the old man and his family from further hardship. Separated by overwhelming differences, standing much of his life with the forces responsible for the tribe's devastating losses, he is faced with a last order. He is to stop the Cheyenne Exodus, the tribe's desperate effort by a remnant of three hundred men, women and children to return, from Indian Territory, to their homeland against the full force of the United States military power.