Seven-year old Jake Bershinsky finds himself alone in a forest far from civilization, alone that is, until meeting Henry Riley an Antigua Pueblo Indian. The same age and both fatherless, the two became more than friends as Henry's people adopt Jake into the Raven Clan. Once overcoming the prejudice of Henry's uncle, Jake is educated as both Native American and White until an accident changes the course of his life. Involved in the Vietnam War, Jake buries himself and his pain in an Army career until retirement and family brings him back to his roots where he serves as a law enforcement officer on the Zuni National Forest. He sufficiently repressed the memory of what happened thirty years before until discovery of a body at Beaver Creek Campground sets him on a collision course with his past as he searches for the murderers, and to head off a full-scale Pueblo Indian uprising.