Under the sun of the Oregon High Desert, members of the West Spirit Reservation struggle to survive. As global warming intensifies, their lives become so fragile that the elders feel they have no choice but to allow outsiders to bail them out. That's when the trouble begins. The novel opens dramatically in 2039 with James Hokama Byrne, grandson of Chief Tahoma-Kiche, leading a team to steal water trucks and take them to the Chekesuwant Reservation, where his grandparents live. The plot chronicles James's journey, following his growth from a naive high school graduate to an environmental activist, challenged to make access to clean water a human right, not a commodity exploited by private corporations. "Future big wars will not be over oil or land; they will be over water. Free, clean water is losing its place as a right of humankind. Across the globe, international corporations are getting control of water. Reading this book is like drinking a cool glass of water on a hot day." Michael(Two-Feather Ray, Potowatami, FIlmmaker and Storyteller.