The War Chief's Son

Beau Lightfoot is born into a world of isolation and poverty. His mother is an Odawa Indian and his white father is an abusive drunk. When Beau is eleven years old, his mother disappears, never to return. The spirit of Pontiac, The Greatest War Chief Who Ever Lived, appears to Beau and guides him and his sister to a sanctuary at the Holy Childhood Indian School in Harbor Springs, Michigan.