James Fielding

Songstar: the Legend of Wandering Eagle James Fielding

I received the original manuscript that describes the meeting of Jes Mavers with the Native American Indian storyteller, Wandering Eagle at a dance in honor of a Swinomish Elder who was also a great storyteller. Apparently this manuscript had circulated for years in Washington State and several areas of northern Oregon. It is a curious form of early Cree. After much study, investigation, and great efforts in translating the work a tremendous epic story emerges being told to Jes Mavers by Wandering Eagle throughout the night. The story is at its roots a spiritual symbolic journey of the human soul. Its meaning unveils slowly and deliberately, enticing the reader with its mystical depth. Characters express the enduring values that bring out the best and the worst in humanity. The reader finds himself or herself swept into the journey of Stormtree, his training, his visions, and his own development into the last of the Spiritsons