After years of schooling on the East Coast, Constance Browning returns to Oregon and the reservation where she grew up with her missionary parents.
Connie.
But Connie and Tom have another purpose--to prove her parents are not involved in a secret conspiracy to goad the oppressed tribes into a doomed war.
She is accompanied by Thomas Lowell, her best friend and colleague, and together they embark on a project to catalogue the native peoples of Oregon for the Bureau of American Ethnology.
After years of schooling on the East Coast, Constance Browning returns to Oregon and the reservation where she grew up with her missionary parents