Toni Tarango
Toni Tarango

Toni began her journey in fiction writing with a short story fiction class at Berkeley City College in 2003. Twenty years later, she self-published the Between Two Worlds Novella Series, which explores the complexities of a bicultural family of Native American and Irish Catholic heritage over two generations. Toni interacted with culture keepers from Arizona’s Gila River Indian Reservation, which serves as the basis for the fictitious Nagchaw Nation of Arizona. The Between Two Worlds Novella Series is available on this website and at the Oakland Public Library.


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Books

As The Twig Is Bent (Between Two Worlds Series, #1)

Between Two Worlds

Joslin, Keith Gentry’s younger sister, has Native American and Irish Catholic ancestry. While coping with a family tragedy, she discovers her psychic abilities and learns about her Yellowbird clan heritage of the Nagchaw Nation in Arizona. Through medicine circles, sweat ceremonies, and powwows, Joslin embraces her gift of future sight and finds...

As The Eagle Soars (Between Two Worlds Series, #2)

At Birth and Beyond

Keith Gentry, is rooted in his Native American mother’s culture and has found meaning and value in their medicine circles, sweat ceremonies, and powwows. Keith also is gifted with future sight by way of the Yellowbird clan from which he descends. Keith is being touted as the up-and-coming Chief Executive of the Tribal Council and desires to lead...

Coming Full Circle (Between Two Worlds Series, #3)

Following the Path with Heart

Now an elder of the Nagchaw Nation, Joslin reflects on the lessons learned when her life took a dramatic shift in her mid-twenties. After experiencing a family tragedy, Joslin eagerly sought a new direction. She relocates to the ancestral home of her mother’s people, the Yellowbird clan, and assumes the role of Director of the Nagchaw Cultural...

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When Messina Raven left Santa Fe, New Mexico and moved to the Nagchaw Nation outside of Coleman, Arizona it was a tough transition. This...

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Ancestral Wisdom offers insight and exploration into the Nagchaw Nation of Arizona through the perspective of Keith Bahe, whose identity...

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