In 1894, Eliza Morrison, a Chippewa, Scots, and French woman from Madeline Island in Lake Superior, wrote her life story. She tells about her family`s starving time on their homestead, the Wisconsin Death March, the Dream Dance, fur trading, using birch bark, lacrosse, family hunting crest marks, Indian marriage and burial customs, sigh language, making maple sugar, treaties, and the Chippewa-Dakota War. She relates two never-before-recorded Indian stories, complete with the songs.