Her name is Omakayas or Little Frog because her first step was a hop and she lives on an island in Lake Superior. One day in 1850 Omakayass island is visited by a group of mysterious people. From them she learns that the chimookomanag or white people want Omakayas and her people to leave their island and move farther west.
That day Omakayas realizes that something so valuable so important that she never knew she had it in the first place could be in danger: Her way of life. Her home.