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North America's Forgotten Past (occasionally called "First North Americans") is a series of historical fiction novels published by Tor and written by husband and wife co-authors W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear.[1]

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  1. 55 relations: Alaska, Algonquian peoples, Archaeology, Archaic period (North America), Beringia, British Columbia, Cahokia, Canada, Caucasian race, Chesapeake Bay, Clan, Earth's Children, Etowah Indian Mounds, Europe, Fremont culture, Great Lakes, Great Lakes region, High Plains (United States), Historical fiction, Hohokam, Hopewell tradition, Iron Age, Iroquois, Jean M. Auel, Kathleen O'Neal Gear, Kennewick Man, Menstruation, Merchant, Mississippi River, Mogollon culture, Mound Builders, Moundville Archaeological Site, Moundville, Alabama, New Mexico, Norse colonization of North America, North America, North America's Forgotten Past, Oedipus complex, Ontario, Paleo-Indians, Poverty Point, Prophet, Salado culture, Salt River (Arizona), Siberia, Skræling, Spear-thrower, Tor Books, Totem, Two-spirit, ... Expand index (5 more) »

  2. Books about Native Americans
  3. Historical novels by series
  4. Novels set in pre-Columbian America

Alaska

Alaska is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America.

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Algonquian peoples

The Algonquians are one of the most populous and widespread North American native language groups.

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Archaeology

Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

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Archaic period (North America)

In the classification of the archaeological cultures of North America, the Archaic period in North America, taken to last from around 8000 to 1000 BC in the sequence of North American pre-Columbian cultural stages, is a period defined by the archaic stage of cultural development.

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Beringia

Beringia is defined today as the land and maritime area bounded on the west by the Lena River in Russia; on the east by the Mackenzie River in Canada; on the north by 72° north latitude in the Chukchi Sea; and on the south by the tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula.

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British Columbia

British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada.

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Cahokia

The Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site (11 MS 2) is the site of a pre-Columbian Native American city (which existed 1050–1350 CE) directly across the Mississippi River from present-day St. Louis, Missouri.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Caucasian race

The Caucasian race (also Caucasoid, Europid, or Europoid) is an obsolete racial classification of humans based on a now-disproven theory of biological race.

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Chesapeake Bay

The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States.

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Clan

A clan is a group of people united by actual or perceived kinship and descent.

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Earth's Children

Earth's Children is a series of epic historical fiction (or more precisely, prehistorical fiction) novels written by Jean M. Auel set circa 30,000 years before the present day. North America's Forgotten Past and Earth's Children are historical novels by series.

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Etowah Indian Mounds

Etowah Indian Mounds (9BR1) are a archaeological site in Bartow County, Georgia, south of Cartersville.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Fremont culture

The Fremont culture or Fremont people is a pre-Columbian archaeological culture which received its name from the Fremont River in the U.S. state of Utah, where the culture's sites were discovered by local indigenous peoples like the Navajo and Ute.

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Great Lakes

The Great Lakes (Grands Lacs), also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes in the east-central interior of North America that connect to the Atlantic Ocean via the Saint Lawrence River.

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Great Lakes region

The Great Lakes region of Northern America is a binational Canadian–American region centered around the Great Lakes that includes the U.S. states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin and the Canadian province of Ontario.

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High Plains (United States)

The High Plains are a subregion of the Great Plains, mainly in the Western United States, but also partly in the Midwest states of Nebraska, Kansas, and South Dakota, generally encompassing the western part of the Great Plains before the region reaches the Rocky Mountains.

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Historical fiction

Historical fiction is a literary genre in which a fictional plot takes place in the setting of particular real historical events.

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Hohokam

Hohokam was a culture in the North American Southwest in what is now part of south-central Arizona, United States, and Sonora, Mexico.

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Hopewell tradition

The Hopewell tradition, also called the Hopewell culture and Hopewellian exchange, describes a network of precontact Native American cultures that flourished in settlements along rivers in the northeastern and midwestern Eastern Woodlands from 100 BCE to 500 CE, in the Middle Woodland period.

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Iron Age

The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three historical Metal Ages, after the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age.

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Iroquois

The Iroquois, also known as the Five Nations, and later as the Six Nations from 1722 onwards; alternatively referred to by the endonym Haudenosaunee are an Iroquoian-speaking confederacy of Native Americans and First Nations peoples in northeast North America.

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Jean M. Auel

Jean Marie Auel (born February 18, 1936) is an American writer who wrote the Earth's Children books, a series of novels set in prehistoric Europe that explores human activities during this time, and touches on the interactions of Cro-Magnon people with Neanderthals.

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Kathleen O'Neal Gear

Kathleen O'Neal Gear (born 1954) is an American archaeologist, historian, and New York Times bestselling author or co-author of 57 books and over 200 non-fiction publications.

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Kennewick Man

Kennewick Man or Ancient One was an ancient Indigenous American man who lived during the early Holocene, whose skeletal remains were found washed out on a bank of the Columbia River in Kennewick, Washington, on July 28, 1996.

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Menstruation

Menstruation (also known as a period, among other colloquial terms) is the regular discharge of blood and mucosal tissue from the inner lining of the uterus through the vagina.

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Merchant

A merchant is a person who trades in commodities produced by other people, especially one who trades with foreign countries.

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Mississippi River

The Mississippi River is the primary river and second-longest river of the largest drainage basin in the United States.

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Mogollon culture

Mogollon culture is an archaeological culture of Native American peoples from Southern New Mexico and Arizona, Northern Sonora and Chihuahua, and Western Texas.

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Mound Builders

Many pre-Columbian cultures in North America were collectively termed "Mound Builders", but the term has no formal meaning.

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Moundville Archaeological Site

Moundville Archaeological Site, also known as the Moundville Archaeological Park, is a Mississippian culture archaeological site on the Black Warrior River in Hale County, near the modern city of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

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Moundville, Alabama

Moundville is a town in Hale and Tuscaloosa counties in the U.S. state of Alabama.

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New Mexico

New Mexico (Nuevo MéxicoIn Peninsular Spanish, a spelling variant, Méjico, is also used alongside México. According to the Diccionario panhispánico de dudas by Royal Spanish Academy and Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, the spelling version with J is correct; however, the spelling with X is recommended, as it is the one that is used in Mexican Spanish.; Yootó Hahoodzo) is a state in the Southwestern region of the United States.

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Norse colonization of North America

The Norse exploration of North America began in the late 10th century, when Norsemen explored areas of the North Atlantic colonizing Greenland and creating a short term settlement near the northern tip of Newfoundland.

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North America

North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.

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North America's Forgotten Past

North America's Forgotten Past (occasionally called "First North Americans") is a series of historical fiction novels published by Tor and written by husband and wife co-authors W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear. North America's Forgotten Past and North America's Forgotten Past are books about Native Americans, historical novels by series, novel series, novels set in pre-Columbian America, novels set in prehistory and tor Books books.

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Oedipus complex

In classical psychoanalytic theory, the Oedipus complex (also spelled Œdipus complex) refers to a son's sexual attitude towards his mother and concomitant hostility toward his father, first formed during the phallic stage of psychosexual development.

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Ontario

Ontario is the southernmost province of Canada.

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Paleo-Indians

Paleo-Indians were the first peoples who entered and subsequently inhabited the Americas towards the end of the Late Pleistocene period.

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Poverty Point

Poverty Point State Historic Site/Poverty Point National Monument (Pointe de Pauvreté; 16 WC 5) is a prehistoric earthwork constructed by the Poverty Point culture, located in present-day northeastern Louisiana.

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Prophet

In religion, a prophet or prophetess is an individual who is regarded as being in contact with a divine being and is said to speak on behalf of that being, serving as an intermediary with humanity by delivering messages or teachings from the supernatural source to other people.

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Salado culture

Salado culture, or Salado Horizon, Todd Bostwick of Pueblo Grande Museum, "Salado Summary".

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Salt River (Arizona)

The Salt River (Spanish: Río Salado, O'odham Pima: Onk Akimel, Yavapai: Hakanyacha or Hakathi:, Maricopa language: Va Shly'ay) is a river in Gila and Maricopa counties in Arizona, United States, that is the largest tributary of the Gila River.

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Siberia

Siberia (Sibir') is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.

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Skræling

Skræling (Old Norse and Icelandic: skrælingi, plural skrælingjar) is the name the Norse Greenlanders used for the peoples they encountered in North America (Canada and Greenland).

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Spear-thrower

A spear-thrower, spear-throwing lever, or atlatl (pronounced or; Nahuatl ahtlatl) is a tool that uses leverage to achieve greater velocity in dart or javelin-throwing, and includes a bearing surface that allows the user to store energy during the throw.

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Tor Books

Tor Books is the primary imprint of Tor Publishing Group (previously Tom Doherty Associates), a publishing company based in New York City.

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Totem

A totem (from ᑑᑌᒼ or ᑑᑌᒻ doodem) is a spirit being, sacred object, or symbol that serves as an emblem of a group of people, such as a family, clan, lineage, or tribe, such as in the Anishinaabe clan system.

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Two-spirit

Two-spirit (also known as two spirit or occasionally twospirited) is a umbrella term used by some Indigenous North Americans to describe Native people who fulfill a traditional third-gender (or other gender-variant) social role in their communities.

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W. Michael Gear

William Michael Gear, better known as W. Michael Gear, (born May 20, 1955) is an American writer and archaeologist.

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Waterfall

A waterfall is any point in a river or stream where water flows over a vertical drop or a series of steep drops.

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Woodland period

In the classification of archaeological cultures of North America, the Woodland period of North American pre-Columbian cultures spanned a period from roughly 1000 BCE to European contact in the eastern part of North America, with some archaeologists distinguishing the Mississippian period, from 1000 CE to European contact as a separate period.

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Yukon River

The Yukon River is a major watercourse of northwestern North America. From its source in British Columbia, it flows through Canada's territory of Yukon (itself named after the river). The lower half of the river continues westward through the U.S. state of Alaska. The river is long and empties into the Bering Sea at the Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta.

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Zen

Zen (Japanese; from Chinese "Chán"; in Korean: Sŏn, and Vietnamese: Thiền) is a school of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China during the Tang dynasty as the Chan School (禪宗, chánzōng, "meditation school") or the Buddha-mind school (佛心宗, fóxīnzōng), and later developed into various sub-schools and branches.

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See also

Books about Native Americans

Historical novels by series

Novels set in pre-Columbian America

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America's_Forgotten_Past

Also known as First North Americans, First North Americans (novels), People of the Earth, People of the Earth (Gear novel), People of the Fire, People of the Lakes, People of the Sea (novel), People of the Wolf.

, W. Michael Gear, Waterfall, Woodland period, Yukon River, Zen.