First it all started with me as a teenager watching "How the West Was Lost" on TV. I was saddened by what was done to the Navajo children. Boarding schools removed children from their families without consent and took them away and tried to make them white. Walking out the philosophy of General Pratt who founded Carlisle Indian school in Pennsylvania; "Kill the savage, save the man." As I grew I never forgot it but even as a child I remember loving Native Americans and in role-playing always chose the Indian. I didn't find out until 1999 that my mom had been part Cherokee.
Move ahead to 2008 when PBS aired "We Shall remain". I cried as I listened to the broken hearts of our First Nation People. The Lord spoke a word to me during that documentary which I thought was to the Governor of California and President. I held onto it and the The Resolution of Red Tears began to take shape in my heart. As I wrote, I was astonished at what God was saying in the story. Have you ever written a story God put on your heart and just type in autopilot because what you see coming forth can't be from you? That's how this book was for me.
When I asked Him for a vision for my character, He gave me one. Then he had two of my friends tell me they had a dream that was exactly or very close to that vision I'd just written. He also made me go back and read a devotion from that morning and it too confirmed the vision I'd just received. he is amazing and this story is His Story.
Here's the synopsis:
Daniel, Red Tears, Patterson is half Navajo and works as a modern day under- sheriff in Stake Town, Arizona. He was given the name Red Tears by his grandfather as a prophetic name meaning, “the tears of our people cry through him”. A widower; he and his daughter, Jessica have a close relationship and are well liked in their town by all except by Daniel’s colleagues, Tom and Bill McKinley who are White Supremacists. The situation is not helped by the fact that Tommy Jr. is in love with Daniel’s daughter.
Daniel uncovers the McKinley’s plans to form an Aryan army and believes the McKinley’s killed his wife, a full Navajo, as a warning to keep him quiet. Daniel takes his daughter back to the reservation to help an old friend, Ben, investigate a missing clansman and discovers the McKinley’s are involved. While there, Daniel also faces his brother-in-law who holds a long grudge against him.
Through all of this Daniel carries a heart-cry for reconciliation in his family and between the first Nation People and White America. This cry will drive him to the United States Senate with a word about the Resolution of Apology to The Native Americans.
Until Tomorrow. Be blessed with Shalom.
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