Taelo

TaeloTaelo lived more than thirty thousand years ago in the US northwest.The Early Years are stories of Taelo's and Golden Hawk in their early yearsIn The Golden Feather They first travel South into the Andes of South America. They meet the people living in those areas. In The Journey of Discovery Taelo and Golden Hawk travel from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean and see the wonders of nature.In Dangerous Passage the team travels across the northern ice bridge to the origin of their race. In Condor Clan Slingers the team returns to aid the Condor Clan in their battle against an aggressive Warrior Clan.In Circumvention Taelo pushes beyond the boundaries and discovers that the world is like a round boulder. It is rough and pitted but by moving in one direction you return to were you started.In the Journey of Sages, Taelo guides the Sages of his clan on trip around the Pacific. They meet people on the far side.Dangerous PassageTaelo is called by the Ancestors to travel to the origin of his people.Taelo and team reach the dangerous passage where the river surges through a gash between two mountains. It will be only the first of many challenges. The giant brown bear, the fathomless ice crevasses of the ice bridging the two continents, the cold and blizzards of the Artic region and the ruthless Sky Eyes all present a continuous flow of challenges.The bounty of the northern buffalo and Taelo's learning on how to handle the threat of the giant brown bears take him safely back to the dangerous river passage. Here Single Leaf almost loses her life to the raging waters. Taelo acts out of instinct and armed by the recollection of a story told by an old warrior turned weaver, he saves her.Taelo and more than one hundred additional people arrive at the meeting of the clan. For the second time, Taelo has the opportunity to establish himself as the leader of a clan, but he as no interest in doing so.He has listened to Feather-in-the-Wind voice her desire to one day be a Clan leader. Taelo and all the new people arrive to the meeting valley early and set things up so the new people can show off their wealth and value. They have the northern buffalo hides, they have local buffalo hides, they each have two capture mounts. They have many young men and women looking for mates. They want very much to be accepted into the Elk clan. They have arrived with what can only be termed, &quote,rich&quote, people.Taelo enrolls his mother, now the Northern Elk Clan leader and Wise Owl the leader of the Elk Hide Clan and also the most senior of all clan leaders to support making Feather-in-the-Wind the second woman to lead a Clan.