CHSM Book Club: Watili, The Native American Slave Heroine

Description

This free virtual book club hosted by Conifer Historical Society features "Watili: The Native American Slave Heroine" about the harrowing tale of Watili, a young native American women who is kidnapped by Apache slavers and sold as a domestic servant to a Spanish cartographer-map maker. Her courageous trek for freedom after she enters a world beyond her imaginings and crosses the rolling plains and towering plateaus of the West to freedom. She and her companions find themselves facing the truth about the Oneness of Spirituality that binds them in life, and are forced to learn from each other to adapt in a quickly changing world. Secrets are revealed, truths unveiled, and strife arises as this trio of travelers makes their way not only across the geography of the land, but also the geography of their own private beliefs and viewpoints.