"The First North Americans Series" provides in a series of books fictional accounts of the lives of several groups of per-European North Americans. The time period of the books in this series covers a period from approximately 13,000 years BC to approximately 1,300 years AD. The PEOPLE of the MIST is from the latter period of the time range and tells a story family groups of the Algonquin Indians of the Chesapeake Bay area of Virginia, around 1,300 AD.

The authors did a great deal of archeological research for this book. It contains an excellent bibliography for anyone interested in further study on the subject of the Native Americans portrayed in the book.

PEOPLE of the MIST is a book about the Algonquin Indian tribes of the Chesapeake Bay area of Virginia, set in the fourteenth century. It is a story primarily about a specific clan, the Greenstone clan and their village, Flat Pearl Village.

The Algonquins were a materlinial society with all property and children belonging to the women. Flat Pearl Village and the Greenstone clan is ruled by an old woman named Hunting Hawk, Her gra

Shell Comb, mother of Red Knot murdered her. Through previous

Layers of the mystery are peeled away, as the Panther says in the book, like removing the layers of an onion. The cast of suspects gets smaller and smaller as the case nears its conclusion. In the end, it is revealed that Red Knot is murdered to prevent her marriage to High Fox. Several times in the story it is mentioned that incest was the greatest of taboos among the Native Americans portrayed in this book. It is only in the last chapters that it is revealed that Red Knot and High Fox were, unknown to themselves, actually sister and brother. Her murder prevented the incestuous relationship that their marriage would have created.

extramarital affairs both Red Knot and High Fox were born to Shell Comb and Black Spike, Shell Comb also murdered both her previous husband, Monster Bone (Black Spikes brother) and Black Spikes previous wife to hide actual parentage of the children. Black Spike confessed to the murder and committed suicide to hide Shell Comb's guilt in the Red Knot Case.

Sun Conch decides the best way to clear High Fox of the charges brought against him is to have an outsider i

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Approximate Word count = 791
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)