The twenty-five-year-old Lakota Indian Black Hawk in 1872 adopts the knowledge, art and experience of the aged shaman Wolf Heart. Among Pana Sapa – “the hills that appear in black” – lies the Sacred Cave. All the mysterious properties of this cave and the mysterious powers of the Spirits ruling in it are not fully known even to the Wolf Heart...

Thirty-two-year-old Maggie St. Clair, having lost her sister Susie and the ability to walk in a car accident, retired to a comfortable ranch near the Black Hills. She writes novels about the Indians who have inhabited these areas for centuries, and the pale-faced conquerors who came from the east. History, ethnography and love are intricately intertwined on the pages of her works...