An adventurous story of a frontier boy raised by Indians, The Light
in the Forest is a beloved American classic.
When John Cameron Butler was a child, he was captured in a raid on the
Pennsylvania frontier and adopted by the great warrrior Cuyloga. Renamed
True Son, he came to think of himself as fully Indian. But eleven years
later his tribe, the Lenni Lenape, has signed a treaty with the white
men and agreed to return their captives, including fifteen-year-old True
Son. Now he must go back to the family he has forgotten, whose language
is no longer his, and whose ways of dress and behavior are as strange to
him as the ways of the forest are to them.