Shadow of the Hawk 1976

In Vancouver, young adult Mike has largely abandoned the indigenous half of his heritage - his father's side of the family - in being westernized. Of late, he has been having visions seemingly tied to that indigenous half, with those visions life threatening, either real of perceived only by him. These visions coincide with a surprise visit by his elderly paternal grandfather, Old Man Hawk, a medicine man who he has not seen in ten years. Mike does not recall ever seeing in his formative years any powers associated to his grandfather being a medicine man. Mike, who his grandfather calls Little Man Hawk, reluctantly abides his grandfather's request to drive him back immediately to his ancestral village three hundred miles away. Along for the ride is Maureen, a freelance writer who met Old Man Hawk by chance, who helped him locate Mike, and who is promised a human interest story in whatever reason seemingly ill Old Man Hawk has for needing to go home. Mike will learn that his grandfather showing up now was not by accident as he reconnects with his indigenous heritage by necessity. That reconnection may only last for so long as someone or something is seemingly after them possibly to kill them which is tied to the visions he has been seeing.—Huggo

Jan-Michael Vincent

Mike

Chief Dan George

Old Man Hawk

Marilyn Hassett

Maureen