Winds of Change (Matthews)

Neanderthals: had fair skin and some had red hair and blue eyes could speak as well as we can, were intellectually bright catching dolphins (something that cannot be done from shore), killing megafauna for food with spears, surviving cold temperatures and hostile environments that would challenge our best outdoors men and women, created art, buried their dead with red ocher, and/or flowers, cared for their disabled.Ki'ti's Story, 75,000 BC, provides an opportunity to explore a unique view of Neanderthal life based on recent science. It's a coming of age story in the succession of the People's Wise One. More than that it is the story of a People who survived for hundreds of thousands of geologic years. Come walk with Neanderthals and explore a different time and place. Meet Wamumur, the Wise One, who recaptures love and learns a little too late that he pushes too hard as a teacher, as did his father before him; Totamu, the administrative head of the People, whose officious behaviors are accepted often with irritation but with the realization that she works for the good of the People; Ki'ti, the child whose childhood is cut short because she has been gifted with memory of the stories of the People, who is wise beyond her years in some respects and ignorant and willful in others; Nanichak-na, the individual recognized for hunter leadership who would be chief it they had one.

The Winds of Change novel series examines a few issues: When people came to the Americas, Who came to the Americas, and From where did they come? The Winds of Change novel series views the peopling of the Americas primarily from research over the last 15 years. The series takes the "what if" perspective. What might it have been like if the Americas abounded in human life long before 12,000 years ago? The first book in the series, Ki'ti's Story, 75,000 BC (2012), is the foundation for the novel series, and it takes place in what is today southern China. The second book in the series, Manak-na's Story, 75,000 BC (2013), involves an adventure from China to Mexico and return. More books will follow. In this book, read to discover whether Manak-na can keep the promise he made to his wife to take only the one adventure, the dream of his life since childhood, or whether the one experience has turned him into an adventurer.

The Winds of Change novel series examines a few issues: When people came to the Americas, Who came to the Americas, and From where did they come? The Winds of Change novel series views the peopling of the Americas primarily from research over the last 15 years. The series takes the "what if" perspective. What might it have been like if the Americas abounded in human life long before 12,000 years ago? The first book in the series, Ki'ti's Story, 75,000 BC (2012), is the foundation for the novel series, and it takes place in what is today southern China. The second book in the series, Manak-na's Story, 75,000 BC (2013), involves an adventure from China/Mongolia to Mexico and return. The third book in the series, Zamimolo's Story, 50,000 BC (2014), involves migration to the Americas, the disappearance of Olomaru-mia, and Zamimolo's quest to rescue Olomaru-mia, the woman who will be his wife in the new land. In this book read to discover (1) how the People adjust to the new land and (2) whether Zamimolo is successful in his quest, locating and returning safely with Olomaru-mia to the People.

The Winds of Change novel series examines a few issues: When people came to the Americas, who came to the Americas, and from where did they come? The Winds of Change novel series views the peopling of the Americas primarily from research over the last 15 years. The series takes the "what if" perspective. What might it have been like if the Americas abounded in human life long before 12,000 years ago?

The SealEaters, 20,000 BC is the last of the planned books in the Winds of Change Series on the Peopling of the Americas.  The time period is the onset of the last Ice Age which ends the Time of Peace and ushers in the Time of War on earth.  The Time of War continues today.  The novel is a survival story of the Solutreans in southern France/northern Spain.  due to advancing ice sheets, seals from the north have beached on their shores and the SealEaters have come to depend on them for their major food source.  The SealEaters face advancing ice from the north, warring groups beyond the mountains to the east and south.  In search of a new land, a small number of SealEaters travel the arc formed by the ice sheets, eating seals along the way across the Atlantic Ocean to the east coast of what is now North America, a coast very different from what we know today.  They survey the land and groups of people living there, trying to find a new living place.  There are differences among the Solutreans and the people they meet in the new land when compared to the People in the first four books.  The SealEaters' group cohesiveness has disintegrated  when compared to the People of the preceding books.  The SealEaters, 20,000 BC tells the tale of this effort to find a new land.