Eagle Feather Boy Chief is a story about a young Native American who has left his tribe in favor of living and working with his adopted "white" family at the local sawmill during the early logging years in Michigan. His father, chief of the tribe, is found murdered. By tradition, this means that Eagle Feather becomes the new tribal chief. At age 15, young Eagle Feather must decide if he is to return to the tribe as their chief and find who killed his father or stay with the "white ones" who have befriended him. It is a red-tailed hawk that helps him make the decision