The documentary focuses on the shocking revelation that , the beloved "Cherokee" author of the 1976 memoir The Education of Little Tree , was actually Asa Earl Carter , a violent white supremacist from Alabama.

After failing in a 1970 bid for Alabama governor, Carter moved to Texas and reinvented himself as a self-taught Native American novelist. Under this persona, he wrote The Outlaw Josey Wales (later a Clint Eastwood film) and the critically acclaimed The Education of Little Tree . The Film's Significance

is a 2011 documentary film directed by Marco Ricci that explores the life and contradictory personas of one of the most controversial figures in American literary and political history. The Dual Identity of Asa Carter