Joseph "Golden Coyote" Ramirez has wandered most of his life in search of the daughter he abandoned when she was a baby. In 1910, a Great Schism at the Hopi pueblo of San Ildefonso resulted in the Winter People, including Joseph's ancestors, succumbing to the swine flu and starvation. Now, two generations later, Joseph and his daughter are the last survivors. Strange mutilations of cattle occur in the Valle Grande, a nearby volcano caldera where Los Alamos Laboratory is building a geothermal plant. Hopi are suspected as they oppose building on their sacred land. When the owner of the Valle is...