People of the Wolf

People of the Wolf

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name = People of the Wolf
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author = W. Michael Gear
Kathleen O'Neal Gear
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country = United States
language = English
series = The First North Americans
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genre = Historical novel
publisher = Tor Books
release_date = July 1990
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media_type = Print (Softcover)
pages = 448 pp
isbn = ISBN 0812507371
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followed_by = People of the Fire

"People of the Wolf" is a 1990 historical fiction novel by husband and wife co-authors W. Michael Gear & Kathleen O'Neal Gear. The story explores the migration of humans into pre-historic North America. It is the first book in The First North Americans series.

Plot Summary

The plot concerns a band of Siberian hunters pursuing game across Beringia during the last Ice Age. Spurred by a vision he had while on a hunt, a young tribesman named Runs in Light, later called Wolf Dreamer, leads a handful of tribespeople, in rebellion against the tribal shaman, south down the Yukon River valley into what is now Canada and the Pacific Northwest.

Main Characters

Runs In Light/Wolf Dreamer: A young man of the People who has a vision while hunting. In defiance of the village's aged shaman, Crow Caller, he leads a group of villagers south in search of a hole in the ice sheet there.

Raven Hunter: Dark twin to Runs In Light, he defies his brother's vision and leads a war campaign against the Others (who call themselves the Mammoth People) in revenge for land and captives taken in the past.

Crow Caller: Tribal shaman accused of making up false visions to cover the loss of his powers, he clings desperately to his status, and curses anyone who threatens that status.

Dancing Fox: Love-interest of Runs In Light and Raven Hunter, Dancing Fox is forced by her father to marry Crow Caller in payment for services rendered.

Heron: A fiercely independent medicine-woman, she trains Runs In Light in harnessing his visions so he can lead them through the hole in the ice where the Laurentide ice sheet and the Cordilleran Ice Sheet were joined. A powerful vision which comes upon her late in the book presages events which will be shown in more detail in later books, including People of the Fire and People of the Earth.

Ice Fire: War Chief of the Mammoth People (known simply as "the Others" by the People), he unintentionally raped a woman of the People while under the influence of a shamanic vision, thus fathering Runs In Light and Raven Hunter.


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