Thunder From the Mountains

"Thunder from the Mountains" is an Indian history of Maine in novel form as it might have been written by an Androscoggin Wabenaki who lived in the territory called Mayne in the late 17th and early 18th centuries; more specifically, the years 1650 to 1724. It examines in detail the culture and history of Maine Wabenakis from the time of the its earliest discovery by the white man to the year 1724. The massacre at Narantsouak on the Kennebec River in 1724 sounded the death knell of the Wabenaki Nation and in retrospect all Indian nations whose territories make up present day United States. By example, a precedent was set, a declaration of malice, by which all men of red skin would be decimated as our nation raced westward. It was an unfortunate paradox that saw western man, after centuries of oppression beneath the yoke of despotic rulers, cast off their fetters only to lay them hard upon the neck of the Red Man. Seeds of democracy had been sown in the vast wilderness, which upon taking root destroyed an entire race of men. To gain ones liberty by the sacrifice of his brother is unacceptable by any moral standard and other avenues were open had those in power desired to pursue a different course.