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Little Hawk is a Native American boy who survives a plague which completely wiped out his tribe. The plague was contracted from the Pilgrims who recently founded Plymouth. Little Hawk becomes friends with John Wakely, a Pilgrim boy. Little Hawk is killed in an act of violence by a Pilgrim while Little Hawk was trying to save the life of John's father. Little Hawk's spirit is trapped on an island near John's home. As John grows to manhood, becomes an apprentice and marries, John visits Little Hawk on his island and they remain life-long friends. During a time when hostilities and violence between the First Americans and the Pilgrims begin to escalate, Little Hawk teaches John his language and his ways. John Wakely must try to balance his love and understanding of the First Americans with living in a society of prejudice and fear, or risk being arrested, publicly whipped and ostracized ?
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