Review: The Karen Kay Indian series
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 11, 2013
All of the Karen Kay American Indian series books are formulated the same and the stories play out the same.  Some how the nubile young woman gets to travel through Indian territory unescorted by people of her own race.  She moves from sheer terror to curiosity, to love for her captor/guide to having to make the decision to leave white society and live in the more civilized Indian culture.  The redeeming factor in her books are the  factual details  of what made up the fabric of the American plains Indian tribes lives.  The respect for the land and for each other.  Of a people dedicated to each other and to perserving their traditions and faith that mother earth would provide all that they would ever need even as they fought and feared the white invaders who showed no respect for themselves let alone for the gifts of the earth.  For those reasons alone I gave these books four stars.  I often think of how the story of the white man and the plains Indians would have played out if the Indians would have had the experience of meeting some of the earnest pioneers who also just wanted to live off the land first, instead of the trappers and greedy traders who to one degree or other were crude, uneducated and in many instances fugitives from the law and descent civilization.  Our American/Indian Heritage would have so much richer.