Sing Down the Moon is about a fourteen year old Indian girl who is part of the Navaho tribe. Bright Morning and her family live in the Canyon De Chelly. Bright Morning liked to take the sheep to the mesa often. One day Bright Morning and her friend Running Bird took the sheep to the mesa, not knowing trouble was coming. Later that day two Spaniards had surrounded them, and tied them to their horses. The Spaniards took them far away from the canyon and sold them to people as slaves. When they got sold as slaves both Bright Morning and Running Bird got separated. One night Bright Morning and Running Bird escaped their slave homes and met up. While trying to run away they met another girl who also wanted to escape from being a slave. To get back to the canyon they had a long journey ahead of them, so to make it easier they stole three horses. On their journey home then saw tall boy, the leader of the Navaho warriors and he was with his friend Mando. Then they all traveled back to the canyon together on their horses. As the Spaniards got closer to them, tall boy did a war cry, which made the Spaniards horses leap sideways. Finally the on the fifth day they reached the canyon.