Talking White Owl

Something's been brewing deep inside South Dakota's fabled Black Hills for decades, with hints of it just now beginning to surface. For the time being, fifteen-year-old Viktor Talking White Owl is in the dark about his ties to what's happening so close to the Lakota reservation where he was born. It won't be until the bright and athletic boy with the promising future reaches adulthood that he'll learn how his mother, U.S. Air Force pilot Constance Howling Wind, contributed to a bold plan that now includes him, a plan designed to shape the next chapter of Native history in the region. Over the years, young Viktor finds success in the white man's world, leaving him with a nagging question: What does he owe his people? This is a story about the deep connection between a people to their land and the right to control their lives on it.

Approximately 265,000 words long.