The Ghost Hawk

More than four centuries ago, around eastern Ohio, there was a tribe in the Mahoning River Valley called the Salt Springs, which was a part of the Erierhonon, a larger nation centered around the Great Lakes. These people were hunters, planters, and warriors. Almost none of them had ever seen a white man or a horse.

Most of the able-bodied young men of the Salt Springs tribe were divided into hunters or warriors, with the hunters being far fewer in number. Among the hunters was a leader by th...