New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in the Big Pines area of the Canada / Minnesota borderlands. Publisher's Weekly called this "A provocative, potent debut" and went on to say that "Johnson evokes a community of disenfranchised Indians, the Ojibway and Chippewa, as its members slowly leave their cultural enclave over 30 years from the Ô50s to the Ô80s. . . . Each chapter is in fact like a powerful short story that could stand on its own. 258 pp. Jacket design and art by Archie Ferguson & Carol Devine Carson. ISBN: 0-394-583353.