THE LOON FEATHER Author:Iola Fuller The Loon Feather is the story of an Indian girl, Oneta, daughter of Tecumseh, destined to grow up with the incompatible traditions of her own people and of the white traders on Mackinac Island. She learns French from a "black coat" in a mission school, gradually becomes bound to the world of her French stepfather, Pierre Debans, and is educated ... more »in a convent in Quebec. Only when Debans, unable to reconcile tribal ways with his European background, nearly sparks an Indian uprising does Oneta make a choice between her two heritages.
Continously in print for over twenty-five years, the Loon Feather is a story of universal appeal and one of the most popular books ever written about the conflict of alien peoples.
"The Loon Feather matches in the beauty and freshness of its writing that north country which it describes. Into the tempo of quiet serenity that makes this book an idyll there is interpolated the quick beat of suspense and excitement that makes it also an absorbing novel."
Great book! Especially if you're from Michigan or have ever visited the Northern part of the state. It is a beautiful history of both Michigan and the Native peoples of the area.