Medicine hat

Pipe Bearer, a young holy man of the Elk Dog People, sets out with his wife, Otter Woman, on a vision quest to find the meaning of the sacred coloring on a foal born to his mare. The colt bears markings resembling the headdress of a holy man, the medicine hat. Traveling in the guise of a trader, he leads Otter through the country of the Cheyenne and Arapaho and into the homelands of the Crow and ...