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A continuation of Don Coldsmiths Spanish Bit series, The Lost Band traces the sage of the People, a fictional nation of American Plains Indians in the late eighteenth century. Annually the People celebrate the Sun Dance, and each year the Council circle leaves an empty place of honor for the Lost Band, whose members disappeared and are presumed killed in a genocidal raid in the Great Plains two hundred years earlier. This group is the Lost Band, their fate an ongoing mystery in the history of the People.In The Lost Band, Story Keeper, chief of the Forest Band, unravels the puzzle when he makes a sudden and dramatic appearance. To claim the empty place at the Council table, Story Keeper must recount the fate of the Lost Band. The story begins as White Moon and her adopted child are gradually embraced by a childless couple whose people have abducted the last of the Band. At the same time, White Moons friend Turkey Hen becomes the Second Wife of her captor. Turkey Hen enjoys her status and is willing to sacrifice her heritage for security. White Moon, however, is determined to return the Lost Band to their seat in the Council circle. She secretly struggles to keep the traditions of the Forest Band alive.

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The Lost Band
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Also by Don Coldsmith
Trail of the Spanish Bit
The Elk-Dog Heritage
Follow the Wind
Buffalo Medicine
Man of the Shadows
Daughter of the Eagle
Moon of Thunder
The Sacred Hills
Pale Star
River of Swans
Return to the River
The Medicine Knife
The Flower in the Mountains
Trail from Taos
Song of the Rock
Fort de Chastaigne
Quest for the White Bull
Return of the Spanish
Bride of the Morning Star
Walks in the Sun
Thunderstick
Track of the Bear
Child of the Dead
Bearer of the Pipe
Medicine Hat (Norman, 1997)
The Changing Wind
The Traveler
World of Silence
RIVERS WEST: The Smoky Hill
Runestone
Tallgrass
Southwind
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The Lost Band
A Novel
Don Coldsmith
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A novel in the Spanish Bit Saga
Time Period: late 1700s, shortly after Medicine Hat
All of the characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Coldsmith, Don, 1926
The lost band : a novel / Don Coldsmith.
p. cm.
"A novel in the Spanish bit saga; time period: late 1700s, shortly after
Medicine hat"T.P. verso.
ISBN 0-8061-3226-4 (alk. paper)
1. Indians of North AmericaHistory18th centuryFiction.
2. Indians of North AmericaGreat PlainsFiction. 3. Great
PlainsFiction. I. Title.
PS3553.O445 L67 2000
813'.54dc21
99-056914
CIP
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability
of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the
Council on Library Resources, Inc. Picture 3
Published by arrangement with Bantam Books. Copyright 2000 by Don
Coldsmith. All rights reserved. Published by the University of Oklahoma P
ress, Norman, Publishing Division of the University. Manufactured in the
U.S.A.
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To those of any culture, present or past, who have
struggled against all odds to preserve their heritage.
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INTRODUCTION
When the Trail of the Spanish Bit was published in 1980, I had no idea that it was the first of a series. It was merely a book about a lost Spaniard in the Central Plains in 1542, injured and unable to get home.
I couldn't determine what tribes or nations he might have encountered, so I created a composite, a fictional nation of hunters based on the buffalo culture as the horse came into use. Most American Indians' names for their own groups translate as "the People." That part was easy. I then borrowed a creation story that was Kiowa, slightly modified, marriage customs from the Cheyenne, an educational system that is Arapaho-Cheyenne, and added some cultural traits from Comanche and some more from the Kiowas.
As the series expanded, so did the culture of the People. I added some customs, each true and valid for some of the nations of the Great Plains: a Sun Dance, an annual gathering, a tribal Council. And, in the Council circle, I left an empty seat. In the Kiowa Council circle is a traditional empty place in honor of one of their bands, killed in a genocidal raid more than two centuries ago in the Northern Plains.
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In my story, however, it is the place of the Lost Band. At some time in the past, this band simply failed to arrive for the Council and Sun Dance. Their fate is unknown, an ongoing mystery through the centuries covered by the previous books of the Spanish Bit Saga. It has been a part of the history of the People.
A few months ago, a letter from a reader posed a question: What happened to the Lost Band? I had no idea. I had never really wondered about it very much. Yet, the more I thought about it, the more intriguing the mystery became.... What did happen? And what would happen if ...?
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DON COLDSMITH
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PROLOGUE
It was the Moon of Roses... June by the white man's calendar, and the time for the gathering of the People for the all-important Sun Dance. It was a time for thanksgiving, an acknowledgment of their dependence on the return of the sun. Once more, Sun Boy's torch had triumphed. Renewed, it had brought about the retreat of Cold Maker to the icy mountains somewhere in the North. The warming rays of the new torch had restored the grass in April, the Moon of Greening. The ritual burning of last year's dead crop had awakened new growth. In logical sequence came the return of the buffalo, and it was right to offer prayers and sacrifices of thanksgiving.
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