Sonny Bear

Sonny, whose real name is George Harrison Bayer, is a 17 year-old boy with an Indian mother and a white father. His father died during the Vietnam War, and his mother is forever searching for a good home for them so Jake spends much of his youth traveling around the country. When his mother needs to go out on her own, he lives on the Reservation with his great uncle, Jake. Sonny is very talented in boxing, but he has a hard time controlling himself in the ring. He feels torn between his white background and his Indian background, focusing on the worst of each of them. His great uncle thinks he has potential, and works hard to help Sonny find himself. The boy goes out on his own to escape the Reservation life, but he is naïve, and quickly falls in with the wrong crowd. After...