"The Tlingit (pronounced clink it)
are an indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America and
the Southeast Coast of Alaska. The Tlingit are a matrilineal society, which is
the tracing of descent through the female line." In my books, you'll find Steven's mother holds the true power.
As Michael Di Gesu, says in
the blurb he wrote for Murder, Madness & Love:
"Detective Steven Quaid
waits. His Tlingit Indian features, as though carved from granite, mask his
Irish passion..."
During my research it was the true story of a Tlingit warrior's sacrifice during the war in Iraq that influenced my choice for the background of Detective Steven Quaid. But this photograph played a big part too!
Murder & Obsession
Excerpt: (when Steven was sixteen)
“Atian,”
Doreen addressed Steven, “do you still want to be a tracker like your uncle?” Doreen
had always called Steven “Little Atian” when his uncle lived, and hearing the
name as his own lifted his confidence. (Atian (Ah-tee-ahn) is Native American for Steven)
Doreen
dished a bowl of stew for him. “You sound so much older this year, Atian. Don’t
grow up too fast.”
“Show
off,” Gayln uttered with a mouth full of roll. He swallowed and continued,
“Steve says stifling, but what he really means is bullies make the city
unbearable.”
Steven
glared at Gayln.
“When
this summer is over, you’ll have no more worries with bullies. I’ll make
warriors out of the both of you,” Quinn promised.
Steven
smiled and dipped his roll into his stew. Warrior. He rolled the idea around in
his head. Warrior sounded like a much better title than half-breed did. His
Tlingit mother and Irish father had given him everything a young man could
want, but material items did not mean acceptance by either the white population
or the native population. School was a struggle―not the classes, but the social interaction―the acceptance of his peers.
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