A New York Times Bestselling AuthorSequel to National Book Award Finalist The Birchbark House Omakayas and her family live happily on an island in Lake Superior in the year 1850. But when the family learns that the chimookomanug, or white men, are moving closer and want the Ojibwe to leave, Omakayas realizes that something so valuable, so important that she never knew she had it in the first place, is in danger. Her home. Her way of life.