The central character in Legend Days, the first novel in Highwater's ghost Horse Cycle, is Amana, a Northern Plains Indian girl. In the tenth winter of her life, Amana sees the white owl, the sign of death. Escaping the epidemic that seems to take the life of everyone in her family and tribe, Amana is rescued from the owl by the old fox. Before she leaves the fox's home, he gives her the medicine bundle of a warrior and cautions her that it is to be used only if she hears the sacred song of the fox. Returning to her people, Amana finds only two old women who survived from her Blood band. They finally join a band of Gros Ventres who offer them a home. In the band, Amana finds her sister SoodaWa and her sister's elderly husband Far Away Son. Although SoodaWa recovered from smallpox, she...