Wing of the Hawk

For those who care about history and the record of the white man’s treatment of the American Indian, a great deal of the background of this story is true. The places are real and the time is factual.
The Denver newspaper accounts of the Sand Creek Massacre by the territorial volunteer army in 1864 on the plains of the Colorado Territory are fully documented. After the vicious atrocities committed at Sand Creek, a group of young Native Americans of the Arapaho Tribe, led by a fierce young teen warrior, Hawk Wing, sought seclusion and shelter in a hidden valley in the vast reaches of the Colorado Rocky Mountains. This is their story. The valley, identified by the author as Latashi, is real and still exists, one hundred, forty years later. It is situated on the western slope of the Continental Divide in Colorado, as it was when the remarkable events of this story took place. The author will not reveal its exact location. If you care enough, you’ll have to find it for yourself. It is holy ground to thousands of Native Americans.