Spanning four generations, this is the story of a hill overlooking the great Mississippi. The play weaves in and out between timelines; in 1879, the memory of the great Sauk warrior and leader Blackhawk and his relationship with the first white settlers of the area are considered as the children of those settlers decide to build a college. In 1920, the college planted by those early settlers is set for expansion, but only if the grandson of one of those first settlers can oust a rising Hindu nationalist movement and silence pro-revolutionary socialist professors and students (including his own niece). Asking questions like “who does land belong to”, “what rights do the people have to resist their government”, and “to whom belongs the privilege of education”, this literary epic gets at the heart of what it means to be a Midwestern American. (Full Length, 8-30 actors)