Book description
In 1876, they wipe out General George A. Custer and his 7th Cavalry
at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Chief Sitting Bull and his Sioux
people then flee from the United States to Canada. There, in the
autumn of 1877, the Sioux are joined by the remnants of the latest
Indian nation to make a stand against the US Army, the Nez Perce.
Their survivors are led by Chief White Bird.
A young man follows White Bird to Sitting Bull's camp. He is White
Bird's close relative and aims to tell the story of the Nez Perce War
from the Nez Perce point of view. This young man's name is Duncan
McDonald. Descended from chiefs of the Nez Perce and from chiefs of
Scotland's most formidable clan, Duncan's family - first as
Highlanders, then as Native Americans - have twice been victims of
massacre and dispossession.
Written with the help of Duncan McDonald's present-day kinsfolk on
the Flathead Indian Reservation in Western Montana, this real-life
family saga spans two continents and more than thirty generations to
link Scotland's clans with the native peoples of the American West.
James Hunter is the author of a number of books on Scottish history,
including
Culloden and the Last Clansman
,
A Dance Called America
and
Scottish Exodus
. He lives in Beauly, Inverness-shire.
