James Watling

Depicts traditional lifestyles in five different tribes of North American Indians through vignettes set in a time almost two hundred years ago, when they still had much of the continent to themselves.

Depicts traditional lifestyles of children in five different tribes of North American Indians through vignettes set in a time almost two hundred years ago. The tribes are the Muskogee, Dakota, Huron, Tlingit, and Nootka.

During the summer of 1776, ten-year-old Peggy discovers a wounded soldier in the woods near her Brooklyn farm, and is convinced that his sketchbook contains the secret notes of a Hessian spy.