Omakayas realizes that something so valuable, so important that she never knew she had it in the first place, is in danger: Her home.
The chimookomanag, or white people, want Omakayas and her people to leave their island in Lake Superior and move farther west. From them, she learns that all their lives may drastically change. The satisfying routines of Omakayas's days are interrupted by a surprise visit from a group of desperate and mysterious people. Her name is Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop, and she lives on an island in Lake Superior.It is 1850, and the lives of the Ojibwe have returned to a familiar rhythm: they build their birchbark houses in the summer, go to the ricing camps in the fall to harvest and feast, and move to their cozy cedar log cabins near the town of LaPointe before the first snows.
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