This book had a profound effect on me as a teen. It's a fictionalized account of a white boy's kidnapping by Native Americans and living with them long enough to identify with them, and I'd never realized either of those things could happen. Although I think this is still true, a few subsequent years of reading Debbie Reese's work have ensued, and would probably change a new reading of this book and its representation of Native Americans. http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/