Imagine being a teen-ager and learning to wear clothes, take baths and use knives and forks for the first time! Tsiko and Satouta didn't imagine it and if they had, they probably wouldn't have agreed to go to the Jesuit missionary school for Indians in Quebec, miles away from the tribe on the shores of Lake Huron. But they had met Father Jean de Brebeuf, the gigantic man who was superior of the Jesuit mission to Huronia, and he persuaded the two Indian boys to go back to the school with him.

The first weeks of school were torture to the boys, who longed to be back in the woods instead of in a classroom, and didn't understand why they weren't admired for their skill at petty thievery, a Huron practice that the Jesuits were anxious to discourage. But bit by bit, Tsiko and Satouta came to love their new life and the kind Fathers who introduced them to civilization and to Christianity.

Tsiko and Satouta's friendship with Father Jean de Brebeuf, their life at the school, and the part they played in the fearful Iroquois massacre of 1646, is an exciting tale of frontier life and of the establishment of the first Jesuit missions in early Canada.

From the dust jacket