The amazing and uncommon life of George Bent spanned one of the most exciting epochs in our nation's history. Born to a prominent white trader and his Indian wife, George Bent was raised as a Cheyenne and, later, educated in white schools. He fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War and later became a Cheyenne warrior. A survivor of the horrific 1864 Sand Creek Massacre, he rode with the ferocious Cheyenne Dog Soldiers, and became a prominent interpreter and negotiator for whites and adviser to tribal leaders. He hobnobbed with frontier legends Kit Carson, Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill Hickok, and George Custer, and fought side-by-side with great Indian leaders. Always brushing against the edges of greatness, always in the center of controversy and danger, Bent was a survivor. Yet for all his adventures, accomplishments, and friendships, George Bent, the halfbreed, never found lasting happiness in either world, Indian or white.
Yet this man, in his final years, saved the memory of his people by sharing with historians the story of the fighting Cheyennes.
Hawk was a dang good tracker and sent to Jack Stockton to help break up the gang of rustlers in their area. And as time progressed the attraction between him and Randi grew.
I liked the little side bit about Crown Candy Kitchen and its owners.
Hawk and Jack were getting close to the gang operations and got shot. Randi was kidnapped and in the rescuing the Phantom shows up and helps Hawk catch up with her and Pete, which leads to going to the Comanche village. Oh yeah! Randi gets a little compatition for Hawk's attentions by one Indian maid. And jealosie from one warrior who wanted to prove that he could tame the Phantom.
All in all, a most excellent story - great characters - very good moving plot -
Definitely Recommend -m This maybe a keeper for some.
Hang on for a Wild Ride.......2006-06-03
The Halfbreed Warrior is a pure Bobbi Smith and a wild romantic ride.
In 1870s Texas, Hawk Morgan can never forget the death of his wife at the hands of the Apaches. When an offer comes to work uncover tracking rustlers at the Lazy S, he accepts. Things get off to a bad start when the young boy he rescues from a runaway horse, is the owner's daughter.
Randi Stockton can ride and shoot as well as any man, but things will never be the same after Hawk Morgan comes to the ranch. She finds dresses can make all the difference as she contemplates a future with the reclusive ranch hand.
Evil forces conspire against the Lazy S, leaving Randi kidnapped and Hawk searching for her.
Ms. Smith's storytelling ability is known far and wide. This is another strong tale from her that will have you reading all night till there are no pages to left to turn.
Bobbi Smith, you just don't write them fast enough!.......2006-06-01
I love this book. I love the detail, the romance, the plot that carries you through the whole book. If you are looking for a good western, this is your book
exciting western romance .......2005-07-27
In 1870 Texas Hawk Morgan sees the lad on what appears to be a runaway steed so he gives chase. When the "boy" sees the Comanche coming after her, Randi Stockton tries to flee, but he catches up to her. She is stunned that he speaks eloquent English and he is shocked that he is a she.
Even more astonishing to both is the attraction each feels almost immediately for the other. Neither wants a relationship at this particular time, but neither can they ignore the feelings though their heated discussions would imply otherwise. However, Hawk must first catch the rustlers he tracks before he can heed his heart's message. Soon his dilemmas merge when the rustlers try to kill Hawk and Randi's dad and kidnap her. Hawk risks his life to save the woman who gives meaning to his life.
HALFBREED WARRIOR is an exciting western romance starring two amiable protagonists who readers will want to see make it. The vivid descriptions of Recontructiion Era Texas is brought to life through the cast especially Hawk. Fans will admire his sense of honor and duty, but also want him to catch the outlaws so he and the strong willed courageous Randi can come together. Bobbi Smith provides a fine Americana tale that her fans will treasure.
Harriet Klausner
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Excellent, but..........2005-02-12
I absolutly loved this book. I've always loved "half-breeds", so when I saw this book I quickly bought it. I wasn't dissapointed. The art was great (with the exception of Makbin), the writing was wonderful and it also offered quite a bit of "crunchy" parts as well.
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The layout was wonderful and the writing was well-written and interesting. Though not as entertaining as a novel, I enjoyed reading this book- it was interesting and well written. The art is also great, if slightly comic-booky in style. The races written up are interesting, albeit strange and exotic- but that's the way I like them. The info on half-breeds in society is helpful. All in all it's a great book, but...
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As the previous reviewer stated, quite alot of the races are crosses between nature friendly humanoids and nature "monsters". There's also quite alot of elf half-breeds. The races listed are also extremely exotic and strange- so if you don't like bizaare stuff then this book isn't for you. I was expecting stuff like orcs/dwarves and that sort of thing, not things like halfling/blink dogs, elf/naga or elf/giant eagles. Still, I was fine with that-I loved it actually, but it wasn't what I was expecting. Bastards and Bloodlines still has some or the more "normalish" half-breeds, too, though.
This my own personal pet-peeve, but it seemed to me like alot of the half-breeds parents got together, had a baby, and then seperated and abandoned the child to one of the parent races. One of the reasons that I love half-breeds is that the idea that two unlike races can fall in love and marry and have a half-breed child is interesting and has great story and roleplaying oppurotunity. A treant that fell in love with an elven druid and worked hard to win her heart, overcome elven resistence and established an area to ensure peace for their children and their lives is much more interesting then "a treant and an elf have a baby and then abandon each other and their child".
Still, this book is great, and has very little flaws.
Art: 9- the art in this book was great, if slightly comic-bookish. I dislike Makbin (one of the artists) but otherwise the art was good.
Writing: 10- it was extremely well-written, with very minor flaws.
Playability: 9- if you ever need a resource for half-breeds, this is the book for you. One of my players begged for me to "magically change" his half-elf into a Decataur, they loved it. I've also dropped in a couple Half-breed NPC's in the campaign, and they made the game much more interesting and fun.
All in all, a great book, and if your even remotely interested in half-breeds, this is your book- buy it now!
Another solid effort from Green Ronin Publishing.......2003-08-05
Having enjoyed their Master Class books, I decided to give one of the Races of Renown books a try.
Now, my understanding is that Green Ronin is prohibited from using any race-related material already published by Wizards of the Coast, so I avoided the books on orcs, whom I already know quite well, and drow, who I scarcely ever use, and went for what promised to be the most original book, this one.
This book really is original, providing some unique half-breed races, along with balanced rules for creating you own halfbreeds, either as races or templates. A few of the half-breeds use rules that make them a little to easy to abuse, particularly the Wyrd, an ogre mage/elf cross, but for the most part they're fair and balanced and, most importantly, playable.
There's only one real flaw with this book, and that's a definite trend towards a lot of nature-focused half-breeds, combining various fey creatures with various woods-friendly humanoids. The results are always interesting (I have a player who now wants to play a woodwose), but perhaps a trifle repetitive. Since I generally run a very nature-focused game, I don't have a problem with it and the book doesn't lose any stars.
The feats and items sections are interesting as well, providing rules for making new race-specific items along with a few new examples, and feats that take advantage of the mixed heritage of the book's races.
The prestige classes are adequate but, in my opinion, underpowered. Since they only take up a scant eight or nine pages, again, the book loses no marks with me for this. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go look at the Green Ronin web-site and see if any other books catch my eye.
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"I write this for all of you, to tell you what it is like to be a Halfbreed woman in our country. I want to tell you about the joys and sorrows, the oppressing poverty, the frustration and the dreams. . . . I am not bitter. I have passed that stage. I only want to say: this is what it was like, this is what it is still like."
For Maria Campbell, a Métis ("Halfbreed") in Canada, the brutal realities of poverty, pain, and degradation intruded early and followed her every step. Her story is a harsh one, but it is told without bitterness or self-pity. It is a story that begins in 1940 in northern Saskatchewan and moves across Canada's West, where Maria roamed in the rootless existence of day-to-day jobs, drug addiction, and alcoholism. Her path strayed ever near hospital doors and prison walls.
It was Cheechum, her Cree great-grandmother, whose indomitable spirit sustained Maria Campbell through her most desperate times. Cheechum's stubborn dignity eventually led the author to take pride in her Métis heritage, and Cheechum's image inspired her in her drive for her own life, dignity; and purpose.
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Maria Campbell's soul on paper.......2002-02-16
The way Maria Campbell literally bears her entire being onto paper is absolutely amazing. As Canadian citizens, it is important to still recognize the issues that plague our society. Campbell's book does just that, offering insight and a hope for something better.
Disadvatageous peoples of North America.......2000-08-30
The novel, "Half-breed" is based on the biography of Maria Campbell, a Metis woman who was born in northern Saskatchewan. Maria Campbell's family was a mixture of Scottish, French, Cree, English, and Irish. They spoke a language completely different from the people around them. The half-breeds lost their land when the authorities reclaimed it to offer to immigrants. Thus half-breeds settled down along the road lines and crown lands where they built cabins and bars, giving them the title of "Road Allowance people". Maria was born in a home where Cheecum, her father's Cree grandmother, taught ancient Cree rituals and legends. Maria's struggle for existence was strengthened by the Cree traditions and by Cheecum's wisdom. However, this was weakened by extreme discrimination and poverty.When she was fifteen, she tried to escape from poverty and discrimination by marrying a white person. However, soon after she broke up with him and found herself alone in the slums of Vancouver where she faced drug addiction, prostitution and depression. After many years of hardship and struggle, Maria made new friends who helped her to remember Cheechum's lessons, advice and her heritage. Eventually she returned to her own people and decided to work with native organisations all across Canada. The text is mainly concerned with the frequent discrimination, its negative impact and the extreme poverty in which the Metis- Indians had to live under. The narrator of the book, Maria Campbell, conveys her sorrows and frustrations by emphasising what it is like to be a Half-breed woman and grows up between two opposing worlds: white and native. The text clearly demonstrates the existing problems regarding race within the pluralistic Canadian society. The narrator develops the argument by describing her experiences. Through her experiences, she explains how badly whites treated her and her people. She grew up as a social outcast and was constantly teased and mistreated by other school children. Throughout the novel, Maria Campbell provides many examples to show the white society's mistrust and rejection of her people. The examples show the Indians' isolation on every level of society, including the church. Not only were she and her family excluded and driven out of church, but they also had to suffer verbal insult. Whenever the Half-breeds went downtown, the town's people would yell "Half-breeds are in town, hide your valuables." If they walked into stores, other white women and their children would leave while the shopkeepers'wives and children would watch to prevent the Half-breeds from stealing. The text discusses three important sociological concepts: discrimination, poverty and injustice. Defining these concepts in "cause-effect" context, one can see the interconnection among the three. Unjust government policies causes poverty, which in effect contributes to society's enhanced discrimination and mistrust of the Indians. While the Half-breeds represent a subculture, characterised by certain cultural traits that differs from others in the society, whites represent the dominant class who hold the power and influence. The Half-breeds were homeless because the Canadian government had unfairly taken their land away from them, so they have remained poor and unable to establish their own social institutions such as church and school. Consequently, the Half-breeds were subordinated and forced to speak the dominant language, behave the way whites do, and go to schools and churches that were built by the white society. Thus, the cultural diversity, different physical appearance, economical scarcity and a disordered life style, greatly influenced the discrimination against the Half-breeds. In the first fourteen chapters, the narrator relates the life style of half-breed families, their relationship with the white society, their traits, traditions, and their history. Through her experiences, she explains how badly whites treated her and her people. She grew up as a social ou, the Half-breeds remained relatively poorer and powerless. As the narrator states, due to poverty and lack of housing the Half-breeds had to move to "road-allowance-houses" (which are like shacks). The pages of these chapters also uncover the main cultural differences between whites and half-breeds by describing their family structure, distinct traditions and conception. These differences can be the structural elements that contribute to the uniqueness of Indian's situation. Firstly, unlike whites', half-breeds have extended family type in which two or more generations of the family members live together. Secondly, the half-breed families and other Indians live in a community where they practise their spiritual rituals, traditions and transmit their distinct cultural elements to the coming generation. It is also evident in the novel that Maria's family included her extended family and the Cheemchum taught Maria and her siblings their heritage, legends as well as cultural values and norms. Finally, the most important characteristic that sets the Indians apart from whites lies in their spiritual conception of the world. While the Indians are highly spiritual and believe in the interpretation of the natural and the supernatural, the whites strongly believe in subduing and dominating nature in order to create nature in men's image. With respect to such differences, in regards to family and community structure Indians try to sustain their distinct conception of the world as well as their distinct culture. Hence, their struggles to protect and sustain their uniqueness make them more distinct and marginal in the society. Maintaining these distinct elements also causes the Indians to remain economically weak in the contemporary industrialised Canadian society, since their belief is based on rationality rather than spirituality and the supernatural. The rest of the chapters are about Maria Campbell's life in Vancouver. The book mostly focuses on the realities of urban racism, prostitution, drug addiction and violence. Maria's husband left her without any money, which forced her to face prostitution. Within functional perspective, which is based on consensus and harmony for the benefit of society, prostitution seemed to be the only way for Maria to survive. Therefore she had to get involved in prostitution in order to survive and have enough money to raise her daughter; thus she carried out her function in society. In this process she also became addicted to drug and alcohol, because all the terrible circumstances that she faced were against her moral understanding and distinct (Half-breeds') conception of the world. So she lost her self-esteem and found herself in depression with the trap of drug addiction and alcoholism. At the end, she recovered from her addictions through the help of her own people. They helped her to regain her identity and dignity hence she started to work within "Native people" organisations throughout Canada.Campbell's experiences with discrimination, poverty, and other unfavourable things are realistic and persuasive. The examples that she gives in the novel strongly support her argument: the hardship of being "a half-breed woman in the white dominated Canadian society". Yet, at times her narrative tends to be biased since she conveys her story in a subjective manner. Especially, her easy and quick involvement in prostitution and drug addiction is questionable and difficult to understand since she was raised in a conservative and traditional Cree family. Nevertheless, The book "Half-breed" basically reflects an outstanding aspect of native people's difficulty in assimilating into the pluralistic Canadian society. It also provides a brief knowledge about how native people's distinct culture and subordinated economical or political weakness contribute their marginal and isolated position in the society. Overall, I personally think this book is useful for understanding the sociological concepts such as inequality, discrimination and poverty through the eyes of the distinct people who are discriminated against. The text offers an aspect of native people's lives in northern Saskatchewan through a half-breeds woman's experiences. The simple language and fascinating narrative makes the book more interesting and easy to read.
halfbreed by maria campbell.......2000-04-28
though her stories are not exclusive to the life of a Metis woman, the imagery is haunting. poverty, addiction, motherhood and the will of a society forced to make it on their own are all exposed. these themes are explored by other authors but not from this perspective. I would recommend this to every mother and/or women thinking of starting a family. this is a must read. for a guys perspective on similar themes check out alexie sherman's "the lone ranger and tanto fist fight in heaven". you won't be disappointed.
Praise for a Story of Survival.......2000-01-13
Maria Campbell tells a story of courageous survival from the perspective of a Metis woman. The reader becomes a part of Maria's journey through life, which begins amongst the Road Allowance People of Northern Saskatchewan. Her story describes a life dominated by basic survival. Hunting, trapping, poaching - if need be - and roasted gophers for a young school child's lunch. Her odyssey leads her through many dark places, one of them the Vancouver skids and a life as a junkie. Yet througout Maria Campbell manages to convey a sense of beauty, and her story, though often tragic, will become vivid in front of the reader's inner eyes. Half-Breed is a story of triumph over racial oppression. After reading this book, one can feel this woman's willingness to continue the fight that her great-grandmother's people began long ago in Riel country.
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These elegaic and celebratory poems have beenpraised for their sense of pain mingled with thedesire for wholeness, for the beauty of the author's accompanying drawings, and for the compassionate final section which brings together stories of oppression around the world.
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Alienation, Location, and Resolution.......2000-04-05
The Halfbreed Chronicles reflect a tone of alienation and loneliness at the same time as they show a deep physical and emotional connection to the earth. Rose's work is centered in the physical world, and she often portrays individuals as being part of the earth, or the earth as human. She begins with a poem of emergence, and much of her imagery parallels humanity with the earth, even saying they are the same substance.
A recurring theme is a sense of alienation from society, especially in in "Decide What To Do With Her," in which she writes, "But nourished by her enemies she waits, muscles flexing. . . for she has survived even if she has survived alone." Her work shows an affinity for outcasts, as evidenced by "Truganinny" and "Julia," tributes to women who were stuffed and put on display after their deaths. This theme is no doubt related to the author's own upbringing as the product of a father from a matrilineal society, and a mother from a patrilineal society, neither of which openly accepted her.
Throughout Rose's work, there is a sense that the author has come to terms with negative things that happened to her or her people. "Naayawva Taawi" seems to bring her pain and alienation into focus, and clearly states that her people will survive no matter what comes against them. She compares her people to small birds who nest in bales of discarded fence wire, claiming, "We remake your weapons into charms, send flying back to you the bullets. . . See, Pahana (conqueror), how we nest in your ruins." This poem clearly asserts that no matter what she or her people have gone through, they are survivors.
This collection is no cheerful celebration. It describes an experience of pain and alienation. However, this darkness is tempered by a sure sense of foundation with the earth -- a grounding which is secure, and which leads to some resolution.
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Mixedblood point of view.......2002-01-15
Her poetry speaks on her experience as a half white/half Hunkpapa(?) Lakota woman on the rez, her family, her identity formation, and how she relates to others both white and Native. Her multiracial account is an important text within the budding field of hybridity studies.
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11 massmarket paperback Titles By Smith - Half Breed's Lady - Halfbreed Warrior - Lone Warrior - Defiant - Miracles - Forever Autumn - Lady's Hand - Lady and the Texan - Forbidden Fires - Wanton Splendor
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