Chapter 27 Summary

Fleur prepares herself for a journey. She is ready to travel wearing her traditional clothes: rabbit tail moccasins, owl feather hat, leather gloves and satin and swale fur coat. She carries only a toboggan of ancestral bones and her daughter Lulu's baby moccasins. Fleur leaves behind her house and everything in it, and she starts toward the Matchimanito Lake. Her goal is to reach the island on the other side, where her ancestors and family members reside to take Lipsha's place in death. Fleur is a little annoyed with her task, and she knows that journey will be long. She travels over the ice-covered river anyway. She can see everyone waiting for her on the island: her grandmother, Four Soul, her sisters, parents and husband. Fleur falls through the ice, and her life ends. Her journey continues. Her story is told long after...