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Tadodaho

Tadodaho is a powerful Onondaga figure in Haudenosaunee tradition who initially resisted the Great Peacemaker and Hiawatha. After being healed and persuaded to accept the Great Law of Peace, he became guardian of the council fire; Tadodaho remains the title of the Confederacy’s principal Onondaga chief.

W. Michael Gear’s People of the Black Sun places Tadodaho within a narrative shaped by political ambition and government, crime, espionage and covert power, and court politics and dynastic power. W. Michael Gear’s People of the Black Sun places Tadodaho within a narrative shaped by political ambition and government, crime, espionage and covert power, and court politics and dynastic power. Other novels featuring Tadodaho include W. Michael Gear’s The Broken Land, W. Michael Gear’s The Broken Land, W. Michael Gear’s Blood Lightning, and W. Michael Gear’s Eclipse Dancer.

Series

Series featuring Tadodaho (2 series)

The Peacemaker’s Tale in Order

by W. Michael Gear 8 books 4.5

The Peacemaker’s Tale follows families and captives living through prolonged warfare among the Iroquoian nations before the formation of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. The first four volumes centre on Koracoo and Gonda’s pursuit of the child trader Gannajero, while the later books return to the surviving children as adults…

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North America’s Forgotten Past in Order

by W. Michael Gear 24 books 4.2

North America’s Forgotten Past is a sequence of historical novels set among Indigenous peoples across North America, from Ice Age migration and environmental change to mound-building cities, Pueblo centres, Great Lakes trade, Atlantic communities and the formation of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Most volumes use a new location, period…

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