Two professors at the University of Toronto in 1974 -- one of whom was raised as a Blackfoot at a reserve southwest of Calgary and the other raised white in a middle-class neighborhood in Toronto -- find out that, not only are they adopted, but they are brothers.
The brother who was raised as a Blackfoot is a professor of sociology and director of the North American Indian Studies Program.
The brother who was raised white is a political science professor and is slated to be a Conservative candidate in the 1974 federal election.
Discovering in their mid-thirties that they are adopted and half white and half Indian changes their lives dramatically.
This book is rich in detail about relations between the first peoples of this land and the newcomers, bare knuckle politics, the changing demographics of Canada and human relationships.