If Greed and Prejudice are Poison, then Faith and Love are the Antidote
My parents had been able to hang onto their land, but it seemed it was a never-ending battle, as it was for all the Cherokee tribe. The white settlers and traders were constantly trying to convince us to give up our land for some price or another, as though they could even put a price on that precious gift. Because I was married to a white man, and he was considered the property owner, we were never at risk of losing our land. I felt so guilty for having a sense of security, when my people were struggling to keep what was rightfully theirs. I saw the pain it caused them. I didn’t know the worst was yet to come…
White men called her Luiza, but to her native Cherokee family, the Tsa-la-gi, she was known as Bluebird. Like many Native women of her generation, she had married a white man, and she found herself torn between two worlds. Luiza was a woman of great beauty, but she was also a woman with a strong will and an even stronger faith in God. It is this will and faith that often carried her along the difficult task of trying to walk two paths.
The Enchanted Land is a sweeping saga chronicling the life of a woman, mother, and wife as she seeks to find balance between her Cherokee heritage and her marriage to a white man.
