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Coyote Woman

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Is this a story of indians in India, or Native Americans in the American Southwest? What Southwestern peoples practiced firewalking and crystal meditation? The men dive into and roll around in the hot coals while the women only have to walk over them. At one point a "shaman" gets ontop of a sick person in a(in as many words) sharing of "energy".
This book should be billed as science fiction not as historical fiction.

This is an interesting chronicle of an Indian High Priestess in prehistoric Southwestern United States. The secrets of her birth have destined her for something more than the usual marriage and family for a young woman. She learns the secrets of the spirits and learns how to protect the peaceful life of her adopted tribe. She also learns something of the passion of her priestly teacher.

This book is awful! The punctuation is the worst I have ever seen in a professionally published work, and the writing (while very detailed about the culture, which is interesting enough I suppose) is vague and disjointed. Half the time you have the feeling that you've missed something (because, for example, the main character is telling someone about a vision she just had in the previous scene and you don't remember her having a vision in the previous scene!), but you haven't. It's seriously just that scattered.