Prophecy of the Eagle I: The Story of a Native American Boy and Lacrosse

Mike Celeste's Prophecy of the Eagle 1, the first of a two book series, is a powerful and unique coming of age novel about a Native American boy's journey into manhood using the lessons he has learned on the lacrosse field and with the love and tradition of his family and tribe.

The story opens with Chief Pontiac's capturing an English fort in 1763 under the ruse of playing a lacrosse game. Pontiac's uprising is born of an ancient prophecy in which a giant eagle sweeps the white man from Indian lands. Pontiac's uprising is eventually quelled and the prophecy yet unfulfilled until...fast forward to 1910 in upper state New York where we meet our protagonist, Jake, a 17 year old Onondaga, who thinks of little other than earning the right to play lacrosse with the men of his tribe against the vaunted Mohawks during the Green Corn Festival, earning the respect of his grandfather, a chief, and winning the love of his sweetheart, Sarah.

Proving his readiness to play in the game against the Mohawks by touching the tail of a deer in the hunt, Jake soon gets his chance to display his talents in his peoples' game, lacrosse, given to them by the Creator.

But the game takes on deeper meaning as Jake copes with the challenges of love, responsibility, rivalry, victory and defeat and a sinister group that threatens Jake's journey on the path of becoming a human being and fulfilling the prophecy of the eagle.