This is a story about a Choctaw boy who was born in 1737 on a white man's farm in North Carolina. It is a work of fiction that does not represent any known living individuals or relatives. It's only a story that is used to paint a picture of how life was lived in Colonial America as seen through the eyes of and Indian raised in a white man's world.Portions of this story include interactions with the Chickasaw Nation and its people during this particular time period. The main character is a Choctaw boy raised by an adopted white mother and an adopted Congaree Indian woman.As he grows to young adulthood, he is overcome with the desire to seek out his own people and become accepted as one of them, but as he grows older, he learns to accept himself as he truly is. His true self is a "warrior," but he does not want to be one. He loves his mother, but he has three to choose from, so that tears at his heart.Meet Franklin.
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