The Legend of Tyoga Weathersby

Author:H L Grandin [Grandin, H L]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Historical, C429, Extratorrents, Kat
ISBN: 9780985726720
Publisher: Acorn Book Services
Published: 2012-07-15T00:42:20+00:00

Her command of the English language and a hoped-for marriage to Tyoga Weathersby would make her a formidable presence in managing the white avalanche that was poised to bury the Appalachian frontier.

To surrender her to the Shawnee was to abandon their hope for the future.

Stepping from the crowd, Calling Owl, a strong and respected warrior, said, “Tyoga Weathersby, Yellow Robe believes that you and the spirit wolf are one and the same. It is of no matter to the People if this is true. What matters is that Sunlei Awi will be taken from us because of what Wahaya-Wacon has done. Because of the spirit dog, you may never feel her touch again in the night. Her voice you will hear no more. Wahaya-Wacon has not only broken your heart, but the heart of the People as well. What have you to say about your spirit guide now?”

Tyoga rose and faced the crowd. Before he could begin to speak, Tes Qua rose to stand by his side.

“E ya a ho, Wahaya-Wacon eh a to wa e alo,” Tyoga said. “That Wahaya-Wacon is my spirit guide is not a choice that I have made. His spirit has chosen me. Why this has happened, I cannot say. I only know that it is true. He tested me on that night on the ridge because he knew that I, like the Weathersbys before me—Joshia, Joseph, and Thomas, my father—had been awakened to the ways of the natural world by a promise spoken to me by our earth mother. She has revealed her secrets to me in ways that others cannot understand. The rising of the sun speaks to me not in words but in textures, colors, and hues. The rivers and streams do not reveal themselves to me as water coursing to the bay, but as whispers carried on the wind that speak of abundance and want. The pine trees swaying in the mountain breeze disclose their courage and strength in terms of time, generations, and fleeting chance.”

His meager attempt to make the crowd understand having been for naught, Tyoga stopped and bowed his head. The promise spoke to him in a language understood only by those who had been awakened to its presence. While they heard his words in Tsalagi, he may as well have been speaking in Cheyenne. “I do not expect you, my brothers and sisters, to understand these things. I only wish that you know them to be true. The spirit of Wahaya found a willing soul when he chose mine to share. He lives in me and has shown me the ways of mother earth even beyond the revelations of the promise. Now, his deeds—or mine—have caused us to lose Sunlei forever.”

At hearing these words, Prairie Day stood up at the far end of the lodge. She looked at Tyoga not with the hurt eyes of an angry, jealous woman; but with eyes filled with compassion and heart wrenching pain. More than anyone, she understood his words. It would take great courage for him to carry on.

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