As Hawk watched the Blackfoot warriors attack their Bannock Indian enemies, he was shocked at what he saw. the Blackfoot were attacking not in the helter-skelter Indian manner, but with an organized military precision that could make them the most powerful fighting force in the West. Then Hawk saw the reason why. Mounted on a horse beside the Blackfoot chief Spotted Pony was a white man with a cavalry sabre raised high in the air to order the Blackfoot charge. It was James Cantrell.