This is a fact-based novel about a young Northern Paiute man, Jesse Songbird, who was born and raised on the Warm Springs Reservation in north-central Oregon. His parents have recently died, and eighteen-year old Jesse leaves the Reservation in 1910 to make his way in the modern world, as his parents have educated and encouraged him to do. His first goal, however, is to see the land of "his people" that his father spent many hours describing to him as they worked together in the solitude of the Reservation forests. His wish is to try living as his parents and grandparents once lived, relying...