Gitchee Manitou sends Nanabush the Giant Hare to the new north country to give the first animals their names and special markings, but a game between Nanabush and Ahmik the Giant Beaver etches out the islands, ponds, and lakes of Wisk-on-sin, which means place of the beaver.
In 1867 Texas, Jett, a girl passing as a boy while seeking her long-lost twin brother, joins forces with Honoraria Gibbons, an inventor, and White Fox, a young Army scout, to investigate a zombie army that is terrorizing the West.
"Arrachés à leurs familles, de jeunes Algonquins sont amenés dans des pensionnats où ils connaîtront le racisme, l'humiliation et le dénigrement de leurs coutumes ancestrales.