People of the Little Water

Imagine...

Steep forested hillsides slope to a wild, driftwood-littered beach. Cougar tracks lead to the lake, you follow them to a mound of sticks and reeds - a beaver lodge. Listen. A fish jumps. A loon chuckles. You hear canoe blades dipping into the water. Along a marsh, where a stream flows into the lake, two people in a long cedar canoe cast a fishing net. Smoke rises from the northern shore of ha-ah-chu, where a break in the trees exposes a prarie purple with camasblooms.