Wolfsong: A Novel (Volume 17) (American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series)

In the Cascade Range of northwest Washington, Tom Joseph, a young Indian who had gone south to attend college, returns for his uncle's funeral and finds himself caught up in the old man’s fight to save the wilderness from destruction. In his first novel, Louis Owens exposes the raw edge of the current American land-rights controversy and poses questions about authenticity and the common bonds that American Indians, of very different or mixed backgrounds, are in the process of discovering today. Native American Tom Joseph returns home to the Cascade Range of Washington to attend his uncle's funeral and becomes caught up in the man's fight to save the region from copper mining interests An American Indian boy returns from college for a funeral and finds himself fighting to save the wilderness from destruction The rain fell onto the downswept branches and collected and fell to the hard undergrowth with a steady hammering.