"HAIL! is the first Constitutional Epic-Saga of the Native Continent called Onkwehonweteh, The Land of the Real People... today known as America... that takes the reader back 450 years to America before Samuel de Champlain to the fascinating world of Native American politics, rivalry, and war which saw the founding of the great League of the Iroquois. Told dramatically from the viewpoint of the League's founders, the reader meets for the first time in American Letters the native statesmen who shaped the course of American history - the historic Ayonwatha and the boy genius, Deganawida, who struggle to overcome the blood-thirsty Atotarho and bring peace to the five kindred warring Iroquois nations.

Author Biography

After early years in Westport CT and attending Green Farms Elementary School, then raised on a Vermont dairy farm and attending one-room schools, Professor Bruce A. Burton (WGAw) graduated from Deerfield Academy, Bowdoin College (BA), and, as student of the late K.J. Fielding*, the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, writing his thesis on Thomas Hardy for his Masters of Letters in The Nineteenth Century English Novel. Returning to the US with his wife Jamie and joining the English Department at Castleton State College, Professor Burton taught American, English, and Continental Literature, Greek Tragic Poetry, Native Studies, Speech and Writing for 26 years. In addition to novels and screen works, Professor Burton has written and published essays on Literature, and as Eastern Bureau Editor of The Turtle Quarterly of The Native American Center for the Living Arts (Niagara Falls, NY) essays on Native American Issues, Government, History, and, as contributor to THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NATIVE AMERICAN LEGAL TRADITION (Greenwood Press. 1998), Natural Law (Natural Man and Woman). *K..J. Fielding, Saintsbury Professor of English Literature; student of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, Oxford University