First North Americans (Kathleen O'Neal Gear) Books in Order

Little Dancer's dreams may reshape the future of a drought-stricken people fighting to survive. Around him, love, power, and jealousy turn a harsh landscape into a battleground.

At the end of the Ice Age, a small band follows a dream west across frozen wilderness into a new continent. It is a survival story on the scale of legend, driven by vision, love, and endurance.

White Ash, stolen from her own people as a child, grows into a woman haunted by prophetic dreams. After massacre and betrayal, she begins a dangerous quest that could change many lives.

In Cahokia, crops are failing and the gods have gone silent. Chiefs, seers, and warriors search for answers, while hope may rest with a young girl learning to dream power.

As glaciers melt and giant animals vanish, coastal people struggle to understand a world changing under their feet. A lost seer and a rival drawn to dark power make the danger even worse.

Star Shell sets out to destroy a corrupting sacred mask before it ruins her people. Joined by trader Otter and other uneasy allies, she races across the Great Lakes with enemies close behind.

In ancient Florida, the pale and feared Pondwader is burdened with a prophecy of destruction. Traded into marriage and thrust into danger, he must prove he is more than an omen.

Hidden lineage and imperial paranoia collide in a crumbling Anasazi world. Cornsilk and Poor Singer flee assassins, searching for the truth before a killer destroys everyone around them.

The murder of Red Knot, on the eve of a politically vital marriage, threatens to tear the Algonquin world apart. Only the feared sorcerer called Panther may be able to uncover the truth in time.

A prophesied child called False Face Child is growing into a power others want to control. When warriors burn his home and kill his mother, his fate becomes the center of a brutal struggle.

After his brother's death, young Salamander is forced into leadership far sooner than he wants. What follows is a tense story of clan politics, grief, and power in one of ancient America's earliest cities.

On the Pacific Northwest coast, Rain Bear shelters an escaped slave who brings danger with her. Protecting her could doom his people, but sending her back may be even worse.

In the high age of Chaco power, priests and warriors rule from great houses tied to moon and star. But arrogance, rebellion, and sacred timing are pushing the empire toward collapse.

A boy named Silvertip sees disaster coming when the old ice begins to fail. To save his people, he must convince them to abandon the only world they have ever known.

Called home by terrifying visions, the wanderer Old White returns to a land sliding toward bloodshed. On the way he meets Two Petals and Trader, and the secret he carries may topple a mighty city.

As armies gather in the Southeast, the Sky Hand capital stands on the edge of triumph or ruin. Old White, Trader, and Two Petals walk straight into a storm of espionage, war, and divided loyalties.

Odion and his sister Tutelo are taken after their village is destroyed, and their parents set out after them. The hunt leads into a brutal world of slavery, war, and an old evil named Gannajero.

Wrass and other captive children are still trapped in Gannajero's camp, and rescue may come too late. As warriors and healers close in, the children themselves must risk everything to survive.

Dekanawida and Hiawento have built a growing League around the Great Law of Peace, but war is not finished with them. If the last holdouts refuse peace, their whole world may fall.

A mad sorcerer is driving the Iroquoian world toward disaster. Sky Messenger, Hiyawento, and Jigonsaseh must do the almost impossible, unite warring nations before everything burns.

Young Flint Knife travels with his father to Cahokia seeking military help against raiders. The dazzling city promises power and safety, but the truth waiting there could change his life forever.

Cahokia is under attack from within when a brilliant assassin begins hunting its rulers and the living god Morning Star. Politics, prophecy, and old powers collide in a city already stretched to the breaking point.

Five hundred years before Columbus, Norse settlers and Native peoples meet on North American shores. What begins as exploration becomes a tense story of collision, survival, and the fragile possibility of peace.

In this short prequel to People of the Songtrail, a shaman crosses enemy ground in the dead of winter to free a trapped ghost. What he finds is stranger, sadder, and more dangerous than he expected.

An old enemy returns to Cahokia with emissaries from a rival power, and the city senses war coming. Morning Star's silence leaves others to confront murder, magic, and a threat to the empire's soul.

After Morning Star is poisoned, Cahokia reels toward chaos. To save him, Night Shadow Star and Fire Cat must descend into the Underworld and face the dark powers waiting below.

Blue Heron and master thief Seven Skull Shield leave Cahokia on a dangerous mission east. Rivers, hostile settlements, and a hidden enemy turn the journey into a struggle over the future of a rising civilization.

In a war-torn Southwest of red cliffs and old magic, a tyrant hunts a witch's pot said to hold immense power. Healer Tocho, bitter hunter Maicoh, and young Tsilu are all pulled toward the fire.

Cahokia is close to civil war as murder, factional politics, and old rivalries explode across the great city. Spotted Wrist, Night Shadow Star, and their enemies race toward a reckoning that could remake the whole empire.