This story is set in early America, when land was being settled by White men in areas that the Red men had always roamed free. It is a story that begins in Carthage City, but takes the reader to Vigor Church, Tippy-Canoe, Detroit and many places in between, as Ta-Kumsaw and Alvin travel the country to gain support for an uprising against the white man. The reader is also introduced to places with special significance to the Red peoples like Eight Faced Mound, where Alvin is able to travel great distances with each footstep, and Lake Mizogan, where Alvin and Tenskwa-Tawa rise up inside a tornado to view their visions of the future.