Scott O'Dell, author of Island of the Blue Dolphins was working on this book at the time of his death. Elizabeth Hall finished it for him. It is the story of Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce people, who were driven from their home in the Wallowa Valley in Oregon.They were pushed into battle against much better armed troops who fought dirty by killing women and children. After it was all over the natives died, in great numbers, of disease and lived in abject poverty.

It is a very,very tired story in North American history, done from a fresh fictional viewpoint of a teenaged girl. I could see this making a fine novel study for Grade 5-8.