Little Strongheart expresses her life in a letter to her dog, that she always wondered in life if she could ever do something, if she could actually help rather than watch, be equal, and actually be brave..

She finds many dangers on her path, from being a girl, and a native american, she is desperate to show that she has strength, that she can find a solution to life's problems, to show she can save a life, to win a life...