Toyah Medicine Woman of Bluff Creek

About the Book

This book concerns an actual group of Native Americans known as the Toyah culture who lived in Central Texas for six hundred years, culminating with their disappearance around seven hundred years before the present. This Toyah culture’s prehistoric empire began in Taylor County, Texas, and proceeded southeasterly across the Edwards Plateau through South Texas and into Northern Mexico. Their eastern boundary extended to the Gulf of Mexico while their western boundary coincided with the Pecos River basin. The book is written in two parts, with the first part taking place some seven hundred years before present and chronicling the life of Chandana, a strong young Toyah medicine woman and shaman struggling with life’s mundane things and some things quite serious and imposing. Chandana’s life is written in the form of a novel as it is based upon the author’s discovered evidence as to how her life may have unfolded. The second part of the book illustrates some of the author’s discoveries, evaluations, and research among what was left behind by these Toyah Native Americans who lived along Bluff Creek, Flag Creek, and Elmmott Creek. Finally, the author offers direct and circumstantial evidence illustrating why and how this great Toyah Empire was replaced by other Native Americans, starting around the year 1300.

About the Author

About the Author The author and his three preceding generations of ancestors grew crops and raised livestock along Flag Creek in Taylor County, Texas, beginning in 1879 while observing the remnants of several Toyah Native American village sites on his stock farm. The author, a self-trained archaeologist, has consummated a near lifetime of study of what this subset of the Toyah culture left behind in their refuse piles along Flag Creek, Bluff Creek, and Elmmottt Creek. The author learned directly and indirectly how these Toyahs lived and perhaps why they disappeared. Revelations regarding this Toyah culture drawn by the author include the discovery of Native American cliff art, caches, arrowheads, atlatl dart points, scrapers, drills, and pottery, which all clearly illustrate the Toyah heritage in Texas.