I really enjoyed this book. The book concerns the inhabitants of an upriver Skeena Indigenous village and their sometimes brushes with white society. The main character, Cy Pitt, is a young man who is wonderfully conflicted about what he should do. The other persons in the book run the gamut from Paul Leget, a stern upholder of ancient ways, to those dissolutely lost in Prince Rupert's large town. Hubert Evan's evocation of the Indigenous mindset is compelling, although now inappropriate because the author is white. One criticism (they were hard to find) is that assimilation is seen as a good outcome, but it's more complex than that since the characters are often unsure of what to do. I liked many details from native life, like how to smoke fish, build a canoe, or make snowshoes. Recommended. ( )