Cecily has a big time lust for the man. So is Tate out on the reservation looking for a Lakotah woman of pure enough ancestry to bear pureblooded children for him. Of course not, that would be logical. Tate lives in Washington D.C., works for a big security firm and dates a rich blonde woman who hates Indians but finds him exotic. I didn't think so either.
Events pile up thick and fast.
There is a proposal to allow casino gambling on the reservation that is opposed by the senior senator from South Dakota. It seems that some big Eastern Syndicate has blackmail material on the tribal chairman, and, should casino gambling be approved, they would try to take over. This whole gambling sub-plot was introduced and then disappears for a long stretch of time. In the meantime, Tate and Cecily fight and then make up and then fight, and fight, then finally give into their mutual lust. Then Tate finds out that he is not a pure blooded Lakotah after all and that Cecily has known it for some time and that his mother has kept it from him for all these years.