When sixteen-year-old Omishto, a member of the Taiga Tribe, witnesses her Aunt Ama kill a panther-an animal considered to be a sacred ancestor of the Taiga people-she is suddenly torn between her loyalties to her Westernized mother, who wants her to reject the ways of the tribe,...
When sixteen-year-old Omishto, a member of the Taiga tribe, witnesses her Aunt Ama kill a panther--an animal considered to be a sacred ancestor of the Taiga people--she becomes caught between the powers of the legal system over the native peoples and the mythic powers of her...
Sixteen-year-old Omishto is torn between the world of her Westernized mother and the traditions of her Native American ancestors.