Goodreads asked C. Elmon Meade:

If you could travel to any fictional book world, where would you go and what would you do there?

C. Elmon Meade "Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus" by Orson Scott Card. Sooooo many reasons I would choose this fictional book world, but first and foremost due to my Native American roots. I am a member of the Coharie Tribe of Sampson County, NC and my 12th GGF is Chief Manteo of the Hatteras Tribe. Manteo was (erroneously) named the "King of the Roanoke Indians" by Queen Elizabeth I. Manteo is famous for assisting the English Colonials who would go on to be infamously referred to as "The Lost Colony." I also have verified, via a Big yDNA 700 test that w/in my "line of Grandfathers" I am also related to Osman I, the founder of the Ottoman Empire and Sir Francis "El Dragón" Drake giving tangential credit to the admixture of various east coast Melungeon communities, like the Coharie, Lumbee, PeeDee, Monacan, etc. Back to Pastwatch...
I would love to assist Columbus and his wife Diko in uniting the indigenous peoples of the "Americas" into a true United States of Tsenacommacah! Blending Native origin stories, prophecies, and ceremonies with Christianity, much like I attempted to do (albeit w/ lots of fiction & artistic license) in the storyline of my two indigenous war refugees. Having the ability to go back in time to legitimately do "God's work" and prevent the ethno-genocide of the Natives would be a dream come true!!

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