​Harvest Moon is a story about two star-crossed lovers that are divided and denied their forbidden love. Why? Because Kiowa is from a war tribe and Anoki is from a peace tribe. Kiowa cannot deny his heart, so he seeks the wisdom of his medicine man. “Is there no magic that can give me peace?”  

The Medicine Man agrees to use his magic for Kiowa, “I will dance in the sun.” 

On the third day of dancing, the medicine man’s spirit is lifted from his body. He ascends up to the heavens where he sees the stars outline the lovers. Kiowa and Anoki reach for each other. But when their hands touch, the stars scatter across the sky. “Their love was not to be. My vision is sorrow,” he says as his spirit begins to descend to the earth and reunite with his body. 

The Sun God speaks and says, “look again.” 

The medicine man turns and sees the stars reflecting off a lake. In the lake, Kiowa’s reflection embraces Anoki. With each ripple, the skin-walk and slowly transform into wolves. The medicine man returns to his sweat lodge and tells Kiowa the good news. “Kiowa, I have been given great magic to skin-walk you into wolves. If we conceal your love, then maybe your love can live.” 
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Kiowa nods and says, “To love without her, is to die.” 
 
Will the medicine man’s vision come true? Does Anoki love Kiowa enough to abandon her tribe and skin-walk? What would life as wolves be like? Read the book to find out what Anoki decides.

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KIOWA TRIBE

In the world of Indian tribes, there are the warriors and non-warriors. The Kiowa are warriors; skilled, powerful, and deadly to animal and man. They fought with other tribes both near and far. They were a hunter/gatherer people and the name Kiowa means the 'true or principle people."

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KIOWA

Kiowa's birth is a time of joy and of loss. His father had been the Kiowa tribe chief and had been recently murdered. Kiowa was named after the tribe, as he is the tribe's hope for a strong future. As a young man, we has made the tribe proud, killing their ferocious enemy. Kiowa's life is forever changed when his path crosses that of a Hopi Princess. 

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ONENDAH

Onendah too has felt loss from the tomahawk, but he choses to commune with her wife's spirit to mourn her. He is a medicine man with the power to communicate with his tribe and the stars. No magic is beyond the understanding of Onendah and he uses this power to protect, preserve, and to even transform his young friends!

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PA

Pa is in his mid-thirties and his war-bonnet tells the tale, that there have been many battles won. Unfortunately, he has experienced much loss, with the deaths of his son and wife in a battle with another tribe. When Pa loses his older brother, the grief is renewed and he takes the loss hard. The only way he can bare to move on, is with his brother's memory and on behalf of his nephews. 

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MAKES
TROUBLE

Makes Trouble is the best friend and would-be-brother of Kiowa. They have grown up as warriors, as is the way of the Kiowa. When threat shows its ugly face, Makes Trouble is ready to back Kiowa, forever armed with his wit and charm.

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HOPI TRIBE

The Hopi are an agricultural people who works the land and then trade for commerce They have a special relationship with the land that gives them life, and they believe it's sacred. The Hopi see all things as spiritual and strive towards reverence towards all things. Rather than living in tipis, they live in clay huts, which are often called pueblos. 

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ANOKI

Anoki is the daughter of the Hopi Chief, and as such, she is a princess. As a little girl, she strove towards oneness towards all things living, feeling a special closeness to the earth. In her young womanhood, she wants to be a good representative of her tribe, to make her father proud. But the day she meets Kiowa, a Kiowa tribe warrior, her values and goals change. Anoki changes, forever. 

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​WALPI

Walpi is Anoki's younger brother from the Hopi tribe. A farmer with a earnest spirit, he somehow gets caught up in his sister's star-crossed love adventure! Walpi searches for his own happy ending. 

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CIMARRON,
​New Mexico

Currimpaw, NM is a fertile region surrounded by rivers in the high lands of New Mexico. The lands are both beautiful and fierce. A wide desert surrounds this small oasis. The locals there are cattle ranchers and a few towns folk that supply the ranches. 

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W.H., THE WOLF HUNTER

W.H. is a renown Canadian wolf hunter in the prime of his life. He drops out of university when the prospect arrises to make money, spend his day on the open land, and rid this world of the cursed wolf. He, Bingo (his dog) and Cotton (his horse) travel by steamship, railroad and horseback from Winnipeg to CIMARRON, NM where the wolf pack has been wreaking havoc on the farm animals in the valley.  

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WH's Shack

WH sets up in this shack while spending time in the Cimarron. He doesn't need much while he's there, just a roof over head, and a place to scheme. It's his mission to prove he is THE Wolf Hunter.

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The Harvest Moon Life