A fictionalized historical novel about three Menominee warriors who are forced to begin new lives after becoming stranded in grounds claimed by their enemies.
Native Americans were not always the solid, stoic, unemotional warriors that some authors would portray. Fishing Bird and his cousins Moose and Laughing Heart were often afraid, angry, depressed, and constantly second-guessed themselves after making that idiotic decision to accompany the foul-smelling Frenchmen into the lands of tribes to the west. How could three supposedly intelligent warriors be talked into doing something so foolish? Now alone with no chance of returning to their tribe on the shores of the big lake they call Mi-cho-gon, do they fall into the trap of killing others simply because they are of another people? To do this would mean they are no better than those fur-faced people they have come to loathe. In my book, I will show Native Americans as real, flawed, ignorant and clever, heroic and barbaric, maybe even frightened sometimes, but always loyal to their own.
There are few societies on the planet that will continue to fight a losing batle against desperately overwhelming odds. In my opinion, one of our most precious national treasures is the legacy they have left behind. It is to the spirits of these people that I dedicate my book.