Savage Ancestors

Will the beautiful half-breed heroine Paulette Du Charme survive being kidnapped and held hostage by the French raiders in the savage wilderness of the far north? Will Batiste the courageous, tormented Ojibwe brave, her true love, be able to see through the beguiling clues, mysteries and fateful visions to find his way back to Paulette? The first of a riveting trilogy packed with excitement and mystery about a young woman, mixed blood Ojibwe and French who is kidnapped from her village by French Voyageurs. She is forced to wed the leader of the French raiders in order to save the lives of her grandparents. After her husband, the leader of the French band of voyageurs is murdered she must fight for her very life. A young powerful Ojibwe warrior takes interest in her, romantically, against evidence that she might be the killer, and helps Paulette defend her unexpected inheritance against the band of "Courier Du Bois", the French mercenaries to finally solve the unanswered mystery. Order your copy, available today in e-book format or paperback

Donald Chosa is a member of both the Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe in northern Minnesota and the Keweenaw Band of Ojibwe in northern Michigan. He resides at Bois Forte with his wife who is also an enrolled member. Because of his knowledge of Native culture and traditions Donald taught at various colleges and universities for 20 years. He didn’t have the opportunity to meet his grandfather Leo Chosa. His grandfather originally came from the Ojibwe community in Keweenaw Bay Michigan to what would become the Boundary Waters Canoe Area in Northern Minnesota and built a resort and ran a store there for the community.Leo Chosa was an activist and wrote many articles to the local papers about protecting the natural state of the forest in the Boundary Waters area of Northern Minnesota and the wastefulness and carelessness of the loggers. He set precedence and an example with his ideas which were before his time for environmentalists to come.