Loma, a young Hopi kidnapped by Spanish soldiers and sold into servitude to fur trapper Big Jim in 1932, eventually comes to understand, and even form a friendship with the rough frontiersman who has become his owner.
When Jake, a teenager, takes his grandfather on a visit to their Hopi tribal homeland in Arizona, he finds himself fighting to save an endangered Mexican wolf.
Hopi folktale in which a hummingbird fashioned from a sunflower stalk comes to life and helps two starving children who were left behind in their village when the adults went to search for food.
