Tafia learns the value of true art from her elders.

Tafia is taken to Toronto for the annual pow wow festival where she is to dance.

Spirit Bay's broom-ball team gets stranded in a blizzard and Rose has to use her survival know-how to save the kids.

Mavis' cousin Mary wants to write an article about an old Indian recipe. The two end up fighting with one another in their canoe while a dangerous forest fire lingers nearby their grandmother's (Teawash's) home.

Rabbit literally pulls his weight when he helps out a pilot whose plane has crashed.

Hack's uncle Coleman, a former pro hockey player in the WHA, comes back to Spirit Bay to try to weasel him out of his family's medicine bag so he can sell it to collectors.

Lenore finds a native skeleton. When a museum investigates and proceed to claim the bones the community is outraged, that is, until they find a way to bring the bones back for a proper ceremonial burial.

Lenore writes a story that could win her a scholarship in the city, but her father is reluctant to let her enter it in a contest.

Elton uses his money to get spare parts for his bike from elder Teawash, and by doing so learns a valuable lesson in the town's bike race.

Rabbit finds out that his foster mother, Annie, is pregnant, and he runs away for fear he will be ignored.

Ralph, a young orphan from the city is unfriendly when he arrives in Spirit Bay. Cheemo learns about the boy's false bravado that stems from his fear of rejection and convinces him he is at home with his people.

Tafia has to overcome her fear of trains to help her father survive in the dead of winter at their trapper's cabin deep in the woods.