Vanquished, disenfranchised, and displaced in the Land of Lincoln. It has happened before, it will happen again!
A young, lightning-scarred oak tree grows near a village of Potawatomi Native Americans (the Neshnabek) who must fight to save themselves from the onslaught of white migration and disease in the year 1833, when their land was known as the Little Woods.
The plight of the Neshnabek resonates affinity while the same venerable oak stands in modern-day St. Charles, Illinois and bears witness to violence, despair, and hope as the McCallum family struggles to overcome upheavals inflicted by overseas economic competition and a world-wide flu pandemic.
Take a dramatic, fictional journey with two families, in different times of history, who find that kinships formed in spirit can be as powerful as any forged in blood.