This Chapter demonstrates that The Education of Little Tree (1976) by Forrest Carter—pseudonym for the white supremacist Asa Earl Carter—is a particularly intriguing case of two kinds of adoption: the happy adoption of Little Tree by his Cherokee grandparents and Carter's simulated transethnic adoption of the Cherokee. By placing this bestselling alleged autobiography within the discussion on adoption, transethnic adoption, and textual deception, the chapter aims to settle the controversy surrounding whether the author had at this point renounced his supremacist views. It concludes that, even though Carter clearly holds the Cherokee in high regard, his negligible knowledge of the tribe and veiled white supremacist views reveal that the book is primarily a hoax written for fame and fortune. Thus, this chapter on the rhetoric of The Education of Little Tree, which in fact is a young adult novel, indicates that Carter was able to make use of his training in political rhetoric and of the positive views of Native Americans in post-counter-culture America. By sugarcoating his prejudices through an age-old novelistic theme (the adopted orphan) and a narrative form underlining this theme (naive narration by the Native American boy), Carter was—and still is—able to fool his readers. Thus, this chapter shows how carefully The Education of Little Tree has to be read, if its deceptive features of adoption and transethnic adoption are to be discerned.