Anarrative tour de force that interweaves episodes (that stand alone in ordinary tellings) into an integrated series of instalments. These tales are told by George Sanders, a master storyteller whose family included chiefs of the Nisqually Indian tribe, which lives south of what is now Tacoma, Washington.

George Sanders (1880?59) was a Chehalis (with Nisqually and Cowlitz) Indian who lived as a logger and farmer. Katherine Van Winkle Palmer (1895?82) was a distinguished geologist and paleontologist who founded the Paleontological Research Institute. Jay Miller is a linguist and anthropologist and is a former associate director of the D?rcy McNickle Center for American Indian History at the Newberry Library in Chicago. He is the author of several books for adults and children, including Lushootseed Culture and the Shamanic Odyssey (Nebraska, 1999).