Treat Them As Buffalo - By Blair Palmer Yoxall, 1 Each, $19.49
During a game of buffalo hunters, young Nikosis Eriksens cousin goes missing in broad daylight, leaving nothing but scuff marks in the muddy spring snow. Its the first in a series of kidnappings of local Mtis boys that sets the town of Lac-aux-Trois-Pistoles, Saskatchewan, on high alert. As the new detachment of North-West Mounted Police drag their feet, the women of the Eriksen-Desjarlais family, Nikos Nimama, Auntie and Chapan, take on the desperate search for Cousin.Gun-slinger Kate McCannon and her band of women and children have been living in a camp outside town while the family men have joined Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont in the resistance. News of the victory at Duck Lake arrives in the camp as McCannon and the women join the search for the missing boys. When a missing boy is recovered alive yet badly wounded, the need to find Cousin becomes pressing. It isnt until Niko discovers the true identity of the man responsible for the kidnapping that he is forced to grapple with his own identity and his truth.
