Award Name Independent Publisher Book Awards Award category West-Pacific Fiction When Cayatu, a Chumash Indian woman, is banished from her village, she is taken by two Franciscan priests to join the new Mission Santa Barbara.
Even though she meets a man she is very attracted to, she yearns for the freer life living on her own along th.
She is baptized there along with several other new neophytes and begins a restricted life far beyond what she expected.
Award Name Independent Publisher Book Awards Award category West-Pacific Fiction When Cayatu, a Chumash Indian woman, is banished from her village, she is taken by two Franciscan priests to join the new Mission Santa Barbara