"When Vivian is disrespectful to the trees and the land, Grandma relates the Paiute legend of the trickster god Sinawav the coyote who turned the bad Old Ones into stone columns"--Provided by publisher.
Ira Hamilton, the teenage son of an Indian-hating rancher, learns to make his own decisions and become his own man while attempting to recover a prize Arabian colt stolen from him by a local rustler known as Hawkeye.
Chronicles the life of Sarah Winnemucca, discussing her childhood in a Paiute community in western Nevada, her work as an interpreter for the U.S. Army during the Bannock War, and her efforts to save her people in the 1880s.