Among them is Jacquie Red Feather, newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind. Dene Oxendene, pulling his life together after his uncles death and working at the powwow to honor his memory. Fourteen-year-old Orvil, coming to perform traditional dance for the very first time. They converge and collide on one fateful day at the Big Oakland Powwow and together this chorus of voices tells of the plight of the urban Native Americangrappling with a complex and painful history, with an inheritance of beauty and spirituality, with communion and sacrifice and heroism.

A book withso much jangling energy and brings so much news from a distinct corner of American life that its a revelation (The New York Times).

Pulitzer Prize Finalist. A National Bestseller.