The Wisdom Walkers is a fictional story about two women horse traders who fulfill a destiny left to them by aging parents; a destiny that includes traveling across continents and oceans to meet one another for the first time.  It is not that this journey has fallen into the hands of women that is unusual, however. It is that the journey takes place 74,000 years ago, long before popular archeology would have natives on the North American continent, and well before the currently accepted time frame for ocean-going ships.

According to Roberts, the story isn’t far-fetched.  Another incident in real life occurred 74,000 years ago.  A massive volcano named Toba erupted in the region of Indonesia.  This singular event nearly exterminated the human race, changed the earth’s climate, and destroyed whole civilizations as well as the fragile evidence of their existence.  We know very little about the times before Toba.

The Wisdom Walkers also explores another controversial matter in evolution; horses.  Horses disappeared from the Americas in the last eight to eleven thousand years, not long ago in geological terms. No one knows exactly why they vanished, but recent findings have revealed that they evolved to a great degree on this continent, reaching the height of the modern Arabian horse, with coarser features much like the Przwalski Horse of Mongolia.

Many Native American peoples do not believe they descended from Mongolians who walked across a temporary land bridge.  Their own creation stories often point to an origin in the western hemisphere.  The Hopi creation story includes not one, but four “worlds” – four times that the Earth was destroyed, or completely altered and rendered uninhabitable. During this time the people lived underground.  According to the Hopi, we are now living in the fourth world.

The Wisdom Walkers is 247 pages of human and animal adventure.  It includes 31 original poems as well as footnotes, illustrations and bibliography.  It delves into the ordinary and ceremonial lives of people from two continents as they prepare to engage upon an epic voyage to meet on the eastern seaboard of the modern-day United States.  You don’t need to be Indian, Celtic or a scientist to enjoy the book.  Roberts hopes that it will, however, open people’s minds to the possibility of a slightly different view of our human history; a history that is anything but one-dimensional or easy to explain.

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Contact author Corina Roberts via Redbird’s website, www.RedbirdsVision.org

Or by mail: P.O. Box 702, Simi Valley, CA 93062  (805) 217-0364

Or by email: redbirds_vision@hotmail.com

About the Author

Corina Roberts is a writer, photographer, environmental activist and the Founder of Redbird, a Native American cultural awareness and preservation group which received its non profit 501(c)(3) status in 1994.  On December 2, 2006, Redbird will host its annual toy and school supplies drive and Chumash Cultural Day at Oakbrook Park Chumash Interpretive Center, 3290 Lang Ranch Parkway in Thousand Oaks, California, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.  Everyone is welcome to attend.

Radio Interview

On January 28, 2006, Corina Roberts spoke live with Randy Huffman on Native American Voices radio program about her new book, The Wisdom Walkers.

The interview can be heard on Native American Voices radio program at www.nativevoicesradio.net

Praise for The Wisdom Walkers

“Your story raises some very interesting and thought-provoking questions about the history of mankind and the history of the Earth.” David Wark, University of Texas

“I was very pleasantly surprised.”  Robert Duggin, Artist

“Fantasy derived from science, probability and some hidden memories that lie far back in our minds, telling us what is real and what is right; fantasy that very well may not be fantasy at all.  All spaced by poetry that cries out to be heard. It is obviously a labor of love and obviously driven by a tremendous bit of research”.

Bill McJunkin, retired educator, amateur archeologist

“Excellent. My daughter would like for you to autograph her copy.” Charles Fivekiller Breul, Native American author

“Beautiful job.  Your characters are very believable.  When I finished the story I wanted to know what was going to happen next.  When are you writing the sequel?  The Wisdom Walkers screams for a sequel.”  Shirley Collins, Cherokee grandmother.

“The story is very visual.  I could see the places and the trees and the animals.  This would make a great movie.  You want to know what’s going to happen to everyone. You did a fantastic job telling the story not only from the different human points of view, but from the animals’ voices too.”  Cheri Howlett, Haida nation

“The poetry can stand alone.  I went back and read all the poems a second time.  They add so much to each chapter, yet they say so much by themselves.”  Johnine Peterson, Auberry, California