Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills.

Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life.

A nine-year-old boy receives a plastic Indian, a cupboard, and a little key for his birthday and finds himself involved in adventure when the Indian comes to life in the cupboard and befriends him.

Remembering her mother's words, an eight-year-old girl finds courage to go alone with her father to build a new home in the Connecticut wilderness and to stay with the Indians when her father goes back to bring the rest of the family.

Although his father thinks that Young Wolf is still too young to join in the tribe's buffalo hunt, the ten-year-old tries to prepare himself, his horse, and a friend to take part.

When two Plains Indian children become lost, they are cared for and guided safely home by a friendly wolf.

Running Owl, unsuccessful in his first hunt, decides he needs an eagle's feather to bring him luck.

A young Indian woman, accompanied by her infant and cruel husband, experiences joy and heartbreak when she joins the Lewis and Clark Expedition seeking a way to the Pacific.

Though she is fond of her people, a girl prefers to live among the wild horses where she is truly happy and free.