When John Cameron Butler was a child, he was captured in a raid on the
Pennsylvania frontier and adopted by the great warrrior Cuyloga. Renamed True
Son, he came to think of himself as fully Indian. But eleven years later his
tribe, the Lenni Lenape, has signed a treaty with the white men and agreed to
return their captives, including fifteen-year-old True Son. Now he must go back
to the family he has forgotten, whose language is no longer his, and whose ways
of dress and behavior are as strange to him as the ways of the forest are to
them. A beautifully written, sensitively told