Teased for his fair coloring, eleven-year-old Jimmy McClean travels with his maternal grandfather, Nyles High Eagle, to learn about his Lakota heritage while visiting places significant in the life of Crazy Horse, the nineteenth-century Lakota leader and warrior, in a tale that weaves the past with the present. Includes historical note and glossary.

Clara spends her summer visiting her grandma and cousin on Standing Rock reservation, where Clara and her family set up the ancestral tipi and grow closer together as they tell stories, sing songs, and learn about their Lakota roots.

In the Dakota Territory in 1880, Four Winds, a ten-year-old Lakota girl, is taken from her family to a boarding school, where she is taught English and expected to assimilate into white culture.

"His village and children are hungry and meat is scarce, so when a hunter finds a nest of eaglets, he thinks they would make quite a tasty soup. However, Father Eagle stops the hunter and offers him a deal in order to save the eaglets." --

1929. Alfred Swallow meets a wild blue-eyed roan stallion. Not just any stallion, but a medicine hat roan stallion that is believes to have special powers. Times are hard for Alfred's Lakota family on the Dakota prairie. He knows his grandfather could use a new tractor, so with the help of his friends and the roan stallion Alfred makes plans to win the prize money at the annual White River Relay Race. With the race only weeks away, can Alfred's determination...

"Peyton loves to dance, and especially at pow wow, but her Auntie notices that she's been dancing less and less. When Peyton shares that she just can't be comfortable wearing a dress anymore, Auntie Eyota asks some friends for help to get Peyton what she needs."--

Muskrat hits a hollow log with a stick, Skunk likes the sound and joins in, and soon all of the birds and animals form a dance circle. Includes facts about drums and the Lakotas.