Tonight is a very special night a Lac La Croix First Nation. A small herd of Ojibwe horses will arrive any minute! The children are too excited to sleep, so Nookomis tells them the history of these horses. They were once close companions of the Ojibwe: the people provided the horses with food and shelter, and the horses helped them run traplines and carry wood. For many years, they shared the land in harmony.
By the time Nookomis was born, however, there were only four horses left - and the government was threatening to get rid of them. The only way to save the horses was to take them across the frozen lake to a farm in Minnesota. But getting the horses there would be harder than anyone thought! Now it's finally time for descendants of those horses to return to the land they came from.
In this touching tale of cultural and ecological preservation, readers will learn the true story of the "heist across the ice" that saved the Ojibwe horse.
