"[E]verything you need to know to create beautiful, colourful beaded accessories... There are 25 projects ranging from earrings and necklaces to keyrings, watchbands and brooches" -- page 4 of cover.

In 1980 life is hard on the Tuscarora Reservation in upstate New York, and most of the teenagers feel like they are going nowhere: Carson Mastick dreams of forming a rock band, and Maggi Bokoni longs to create her own conceptual artwork instead of the traditional beadwork that her family sells to tourists--but tensions are rising between the reservation and the surrounding communities, and somehow in the confusion of politics and growing up Carson...