When Gray Feather was a young chief, he lived in a world without the white men, a world where he and his tribe cultivated the earth in peace and worshipped the Creator of All freely. But then the white men came, changing his life irreparably. Now trapped in a world of filth and misery, Gray Feather watches in grief and contempt as his family and tribe succumb to death and the white men’s way. But when Gray Feather’s life is threatened, he must learn to give up his bitterness or lose something more precious than his life: his integrity. Paying Duty is a sobering story of what it means to be good and true, even when it seems the way of happiness is lost.