Not since Alex Haley's "Roots" has a story probed so deeply into an indigenous American family. During a life-saving bone marrow transplant, a powerful Native Vision is revealed to the author that beckons to explain his American Indian legacy as well as his mixed-breed father's unsettled past. This poignant narrative weaves together the customs, language, oral tradition, and details of seven generations of an Ojibwe family as they struggle to cope with the calculated, systematic dismantling of their culture.