Eakin Press. In 1840 Tsena, son of a Comanche chief, goes with his father
and other chiefs to a peace council with the Texans in San Antonio. The
council turns violent, casting Tsena briefly into white man's world, but
ultimately on a warpath of revenge that leads across Texas to the Great
Water.
New York Public Library: Best Books for the Teen Age.
Texas Institute of Letters: Best Children's Book Finalist
Children's Crown Award List
ISBN 1-57168-397-6
Author's note...
Our family owned a ranch in the Texas hill country where
we found many arrowheads. I began to wonder about the Comanches who once
lived there. In a wonderful book, Comanches by T.R. Fehrenbach, I
read that the band who lived in the area of our ranch was involved in two
bloody encounters with Texans in 1840, the Council House Massacre and the
Battle of Plum Creek.
 Comanche Song is based on those
two events. Although history is usually written from the Texan point of
view, I wanted to know what it might have been like for a sixteen-year-old
Comanche boy who was there. His name is Tsena, and his life was changed
forever. |
