Running Fawn laved her place of birth, the site of the Blackfoot tribe's winter camp, more than words could express. The stillness of the mountain, the gaint spruce and pine that covered the hillsides, teh loon on the lake, and the call of the loon on the lake, and the gurgle of the spring that squeezed its crystal water from the rock crevice- she couldn't even imagine a different kind of life. This was here home. But the coming of white man with their guns and diseases, the prairie fires that swept the grazing lands, and the quike slaughter of the vast buffalo herds leave her Blackfoot tribe with little choice but to take up residence on the assigned reserve. All to soon the world that running fawn lonves is left behind. The Chief's son, Silver Fox, and Running Fawn are chosen to attend classes at the Mission Boarding School in Calgary. How can she adjust to the stange new world? To the loneliness in this place for from her home and family? And how is should she respond when Silver Fox shows more than a passing interest in the white man God?
