Grace at Spirit Lake

the long version

Joseph Campbell is a thirty-one year old, mixed-breed interpreter who finds himself helplessly intertwined in the real life ations, events, and people of a harrowing, but largely unknown struggle in the history of Minnesota. Joseph grew up along the expanding western frontier and he developed an intimacy for the people and places along with a deep seated knowledge of the varying cultures and languages. Following a massacre incited by Knkpaduta and Wahpekute Indians in March of 1857, Joseph becomes torn between his duties as a U.S. interpreter and his deep understanding, compassion, and kinship ties to his Dakota brethern. Joseph struggles desperately to uphold the rights of the Indians while at the same time seeking to capture and punish the gulity party. All the while, Joseph discovers a brooding conflict within himself that he longs to understand and finally overcome.