Intro - Clovis People
The Clovis People are not necessarily a single people or a tribe. They are rather, a group of peoples who migrated across and lived in North America many years before modern Native Americans. As described in the links below, scientists believe that a group or groups of people traveled into North America from Eastern Asia, long ago, perhaps 20,000 or maybe 30,000 years ago.
The Clovis People get their name from finely-made stone tools, arrow points and spear points first found near Clovis, New Mexico in 1933. Since that time, per the map below, what have become known as “Clovis Points” have been found at many sites, mostly in Western but also Eastern North America. These sites are hard to date, because all that is found are stone and bone tools, but the estimates in the Nova web site indicate that the earliest of the points date from around 13,500 years ago.
The Great Rock Wall
The people, the tools and way of living described in The Trail of the Fox are based on Clovis-type people, living something like 5,000 or 6,000 years ago. The Rock People are not necessarily the first ones to develop fine stone tools, and not the first to enter their area of living. They represent a “middle” age for the Clovis People, a society well developed, but still not nearly as far along as the Native Americans were prior to European people entering North America in large numbers.
Since little is known about the lives, customs, languages, lodging or habits of the Clovis People, my descriptions of the Rock People are based on my best guesses, reasoning, and my limited understanding of other Native American peoples.
This is only a small portion of the entire NOVA map. I am showing this portion, as I am basing the location of the Rock Village somewhere near the center of this map section, in the mountains near Albuquerque, New Mexico.
- Mark
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| Near the Texas, New Mexico, Mexico borders. |
Characters:
Ach
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Ach, meaning “throwing stone, the main character |
Raiders
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Groups of men who come from outside the valley to raid and steal and kill
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Rock People
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Members of the village at the high rock wall, where Ach lives
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Cloud People
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Members of nearby village, at the end of the valley, friends and allies of the Rock People
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The Old Man
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The elder leader of the Rock People |
Sinc (“Little Brother”)
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Ach’s cousin, son of Schut-Tah, called “Little Brother” by Ach when they were young
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Coyotes
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Strangers, evil men, coming in small groups of one or two, to steal the women of the valley
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Schut
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Meaning “Spear”, the father of Ach, brother of Schut-Tah, grandson of Ten-Ha
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Schut-Tah
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Meaning “Spear Point”, brother of Schut, uncle of Ach, father of Sinc, grandson of Ten-Ha
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Sana
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First wife of Ach |
Ten-Ha
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Meaning “grandson”, the grand-father of Schut and Schut-Tah, great-grand-father to Ach and Sinc. Called “grandson” as he was likely raised by his own grand-father.
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The Wolf
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Not a name, but more like a “position”, the hunting-leader and fight-leader of the Cloud Village
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Ayea
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First wife of Sinc, daughter of “the Wolf” |
Cree
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“The Girl”, Second wife of Ach, from a village up river |
Crow Woman
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Cree’s (unspoken) name for the wife of her uncle |
The Trail of the Fox I
File: The Trail of the Fox I – 28-Dec-2010.doxx
Copyright 2010, TXU1733404. All rights reserved.
Author:
Mark W. Laughlin
10059 Warwana Rd.
Houston, Texas 77080
E-Mail: mlaugh1931@aol.com
