Blackfoot Medicine Man (Blackfoot Confederation #3)
Linda Walker

Akule was a twelve-year-old boy when the medicine man for the Southern Piegan tribe of the Blackfoot called him to his tipi and told him Napi (Creator) had chosen him to be the next medicine man. The young brave did not know what was expected of him but spent the next six years in intense training.
Just after Akule turns eighteen, the old medicine man passes over, and all the responsibility for the spiritual leadership and the health care is placed on the young warrior’s shoulders. Akule is the youngest medicine man the Blackfeet has ever had.
Over the next few years, he struggles with not only being the medicine man for one of the biggest villages of the Southern Piegan, but also who he is as a man. It was accepted and even honored in the Native American culture for a person to be ‘double spirited.’ However, Akule is not sure this is the red path he is to follow until he meets a Lakota healer that becomes the love of his life. Then all the puzzle pieces of his life begin to fall into place, and he feels he can finally serve Napi as he was meant to.
This is an emotion fill story that shows even years ago, people struggled with who they were and how they should live their life to best serve their God. Our Native Brothers accepted people as they were and found good in the life they lived albeit a dangerous one by our standards. It is a shame more people cannot take those lessons and live a life of acceptance of the different people God has created today!