Part 1. Cree hunters, Quebec dams: In 1974, a Cree family winters on the land. Twenty years later, the Cree are still fighting the James Bay hydro projects -- Part 2. Standing alone: Pete Standing Alone, at age fifty, reflects on his life and the life of the Blood, members of the Blackfoot Confederacy -- Part 3. The Last Mooseskin boat: A Shotah Dene family builds an extraordinary thirty-foot-long boat and travels down the river to Fort Norman -- Part 4. Kwa'nu'te: Three Micmac and Maliseet artists work with wood, pencil, paper, stone and quills.