Buy the Chief a Cadillac is a powerful story of American Indians confronting an uncertain future in the Pacific Northwest. In 1954, after the government implements the Indian Termination Act, three Klamath brothers are forced to contemplate their futures amidst the growing turmoil of life on the reservation.

Thomas Henry Younker, the son of Frank Wyman and Nellie Metcalf Younker, was born in North Bend, Or., August 28, 1941. Thomas recalls family stories about his father and his mother, who was one-half Coquille Indian, educated at Chemawa Indian Boarding School; growing up on South Slough near Charleston on property his mother owned; being a three-sport athlete in high school, playing football and baseball at Linfield College, and signing with the Los...