Ransom Historical Fiction - the Cross & the Tomahawk Ser. Author:Mark Ammerman The facts: In the 17th Century New England, John Eliot, Apostle to the Indians, led over one thousand Massachusetts Indians to Jesus Christ. As a result, the Indians have organized themselves into communities of, what has become known as, Praying Indians. They built their own churches and we pastored by their own people. With Eliot's help, t... more »hey translated the Bible into their own language - the first Bible published in America. The fiction: Kattemanit is a young brave who struggles beween the law of his fathers and the laws of his God. Taking a human scalp is the only way he can earn a wife: yet the words of the Great Book haunt him: You Shall Not Kill!! He grows weary of God - until the mission of Jesus Christ is made clear by the ransom of blood, unselfishly paid by a fellow Narragansett brave.« less