From the top of Black Mesa, the ancient Hopi village of Oraibi overlooks the arid northern Arizona desert. Here, centuries before the first Spaniard ever set foot in America, the Hopis kept watch on the world, performing secret ceremonies to grow corn, coax rain from the clouds, and keep the world in balance. Then the Spaniards came with soldiers and priests and new gods. But when, after decades of Spanish dominion and oppression, the rains stopped coming and the corn withered in the fields, there seemed to be only one solution to restore balance to the world. Revolt.
PRIEST KILLER, a novel set during the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, has won awards from both the Writers@Work and the Utah Arts Council Contests.
Read an excerpt from Priest Killer
PRIEST KILLER, a novel set during the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, has won awards from both the Writers@Work and the Utah Arts Council Contests.
Read an excerpt from Priest Killer
PRIEST KILLER
It was just a phone call, as unassuming as the butterfly whose flight stirs the air into hurricanes half a world away. But Tom thought later that perhaps, if he hadn't lost his Hopi vision, he might have seen the air quivering with change as he pulled the receiver to his ear. Perhaps, if he had been able to hear the shudder of a fault splitting open three hundred years deep, he might have stepped back from the precipice. But blind and deaf from years of living among the Anglos, he danced on the edge, unaware of how far he might fall...
a novel
Hopi Priest Killer Kachina carved by Ron Yava