We Are Still Here BOOK FIVE of Indian Chronicals by Rick Beck For David Edited by Jerry Teen & Young Adult Native American Action/Adventure  Rated for Teen and Up Audiences 26 Chapters and an Epiloge (131,957 words) Story Notes: Native Americans, Buffalo Soldiers, mentions of child abuse, 1800's Era, Wild West, Adventure, some violence Added 28 September 2026 Proudly presented by You can translate this page. Choose your language.

An Introductory word from Rick Beck
     I wrote these stories thirty years ago, when I had the idea I could be a writer, but I'd written nothing but autobiographic tales like Gay Boy Running, which wasn't about being gay, but it was about running.
     The Indian Chronicles was my first fiction. I was learning my craft and I had no idea I'd spend the next 30 years writing a mixture of gay fiction mingled with the times of my life.
     I went in search of gay literature on the Internet in 1997. In January and February I came up empty.
     There were no gay love stories. I began writing stories about gay people's lives. There was no LGBTQO+, only fags and queers, and my life was spent knowing I was hated.
     Indian Chronicles came before I went in search of gay literature. The two people I would love most in my life were part American Indian, and thus, I wanted to write something to honor who they were as people.
     I hope you enjoy the final book of The Indian Chronicles.
Rick Beck


Prologue

Chapter One
"Hunker Down"

Chapter Two
"Watchers"

Chapter Three
"Settling In"

Chapter Four
"Paradise"

Chapter Five
"Visitation"

Chapter Six
"Shaking"

Chapter Seven
"Turn of the Waterfall"

Chapter Eight
"Spirits"

Chapter Nine
"The Turning"

Chapter Ten
"Grounded"

Chapter Eleven
"Attraction"

Chapter Twelve
"As We Are"

Chapter Thirteen
"Valley High, Valley Low"

Chapter Fourteen
"Buffalo!"

Chapter Fifteen
"Hunts"

Chapter Sixteen
"Valley Low"

Chapter Seventeen
"Explorers"

Chapter Eighteen
"Down Below"

Chapter Nineteen
"The New World"

Chapter Twenty
"Westward Ho"

Chapter Twenty-One
"Predators"

Chapter Twenty-Two
"Calm Before the Storm"

Chapter Twenty-Three
"Stormy Weather?"

Chapter Twenty-Four
"Popotu Valley"

Chapter Twenty-Five
"Settlers"

Chapter Twenty-Six and an Epilogue
"Much Later"


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