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Drums of Change

When the white men came to Running Fawn's land, she and her people were assigned to a reserve. The chief's son, Silver Fox, and Running Fawn are chosen to attend classes at the Mission Boarding School in Calgary, where Silver Fox develops an interest in the white man's God and also in her.

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  • "Story of Running Fawn"@en

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  • "A young Blackfoot Indian girl is challenged to face the changes in her life as she struggles to adjust to life on a reservation and in the "white man's world."."
  • "Die junge Blackfoot-Indianerin Winona ist glücklich. Sie liebt das Nomadenleben ihres Stammes, der über die Prärie Kanadas zieht. Als ein weißer Missionar sich ihnen anschließt und von dem einen Gott erzählt, können die Indianer zunächst nicht viel damit anfangen. Doch als die Büffel immer weniger werden, wird dem Stammeshäuptling klar, dass ihre Welt sich verändert und dass die Indianer nur überleben können, wenn sie sich den neuen Gegebenheiten anpassen. Dazu gehört, dass die besten Schüler des Stammes in ein Internat der Weißen geschickt werden. Zu ihrem Unglück gehört auch Winona dazu. Sie hasst die Lebensweise der Weißen und sträubt sich mit allen Mitteln gegen alles Neue. Als sie dann die Nachricht bekommt, dass ihr Vater im Sterben liegt, wagt sie einen abenteuerlichen Fluchtversuch ..."
  • "When the white men came to Running Fawn's land, she and her people were assigned to a reserve. The chief's son, Silver Fox, and Running Fawn are chosen to attend classes at the Mission Boarding School in Calgary, where Silver Fox develops an interest in the white man's God and also in her."@en
  • "The stillness of the mountains, the pines covering the hillsides, the gurgle of the spring... this was her home The prairie fires that sweep the grazing lands, the coming of white men with their guns and diseases, and the quick slaughter of the vast buffalo herds leave Running Fawn's Blackfoot tribe with little choice but to take up residence on the assigned Reserve. All her life, Running Fawn has known only contentment, but now what will become of her hopes and dreams? The Chief's son, Silver Fox, and Running Fawn are chosen to attend classes at the Mission Boarding School in Calgary. The white man's way of life isn't the only thing confusing to Running Fawn; the white man's God both frightens and intrigues her. Could this God indeed be the creator of the land she loves so dearly? Will she be forced to choose between the ways of her people and the man she loves?"
  • "In Alberta, the star-crossed romance between Martin Forbes, a young white missionary, and Running Fawn, an Indian maiden. She is one of his most promising pupils, but so is Silver Fox and it is he who gets her in the end."@en
  • "In Alberta, the star-crossed romance between Martin Forbes, a young white missionary, and Running Fawn, an Indian maiden. She is one of his most promising pupils, but so is Silver Fox and it is he who gets her in the end."
  • "Running Fawn, a young Blackfoot woman living in southern Alberta, finds herself torn between the old ways and the new as white settlers continue to encroach on her tribal lands, a disease devastates her family, and her father discovers Christianity."
  • "Running Fawn's Blackfoot tribe is placed on a reservation where she questions her ability to adjust to a new life including the white man's God."

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  • "Romance fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"
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  • "Fiction"
  • "Bildungsromans"@en
  • "Western stories"@en
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  • "Love stories"
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  • "Drums of Change"@en
  • "Drums of change : the story of Running Fawn"@en
  • "Drums of change : the story of Running Fawn"
  • "Drums of change the story of Running Fawn"@en
  • "Drums of change the story of Running Fawn"
  • "Drums of Change : the story of Running Fawn"
  • "The drums of change"@en
  • "Winona Zeiten der Veränderung"
  • "Drums of change"@en
  • "Drums of change"
  • "Winona : Zeiten der Veränderung"

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