Summary

   One day as Chanuka was gliding in his canoe across the swamp, he saw Dakota Indian canoe. To his surprise he found an unconscious Dakota boy. Chanuka finds it in his heart to help the injured boy, whom he suspects that the boy was attacked by a large moose. After Chanuka nurses the boy back to health, he learns the boy’s name is Neosho. Chanuka and Neosho become friends and spend five days together while Neosho heals, then Chanuka takes Neosho back to his Ojibwa tribe. As he paddles onto the beach were the tribe is camped everyone stared at him. The tribe elders tell Chanuka that he has a mission to go to the Dakota village and see if their buffalo hunt was successful, and if it was the Ojibwas will not go on a war path against the Dakota in the spring. When they arrive at the Dakota village Chanuka goes through the houses looking for something to prove that he had indeed been to the Dakota village.The next thing that Chanuka knows is he is going to be in the buffalo dance. The Buffalo Dance is to welcome home the hunters from their hunt. Neosho shares his moccasins with Chanuka to help conceal his identity. After the dance Chanuka and Neosho part their ways. But every day Neosho can look at Chanuka’s Moccasins on a branch just outside of his house to remind him of Chanuka. It is nice to see that two Indian boys from rival tribes can put that aside to become friends.