Dr. Carrie Nelson and her new husband Dr. Nate Holden are physicians on the Blackfeet reservation in Montana and are trying unsuccessfully to have a baby, when a newborn Blackfoot girl is abandoned and the medicine woman insists Carrie should be her mother--which flies in the face of tribal law and legislation passed to protect Indian children from being raised by non-Native Americans.

Dr. Carrie Nelson and her new husband Dr. Nate Holden are physicians on the Blackfeet reservation in Montana and are trying unsuccessfully to have a baby, when a newborn Blackfoot girl is abandoned and the medicine woman insists Carrie should be her mother--which flies in the face of tribal law and legislation passed to protect Indian children from being raised by non-Native Americans.

Dr. Carrie Nelson and her new husband Dr. Nate Holden are physicians on the Blackfeet reservation in Montana and are trying unsuccessfully to have a baby, when a newborn Blackfoot girl is abandoned and the medicine woman insists Carrie should be her mother--which flies in the face of tribal law and legislation passed to protect Indian children from being raised by non-Native Americans.