"The Fishing Chiefs", refers to those Saugeen Ojibway chiefs responsible for managing the fishery. By extension, this episode investigates the Ojibway relationship with their waters and lands, and with the visitors who arrive, some invited, like the Métis traders and Methodist missionaries, and some unwelcome: the commercial fishermen who invade the fishing grounds. Treaties push the Ojibway onto ever smaller territories but they continue the fight to have their fishing rights recognized, right up to the present day.

pt. 1. The Bruce Peninsula - Saugeen Peninsula -- pt. 2. Anishinaabe Governance and the Fishing Islands -- pt. 3. The Silver Covenant Chain -- pt. 4. Wampum Strings -- pt. 5. The 1830s - The Challenge of Fishing Protection -- pt. 6. Treaty 45 1/2 (Saugeen Tract Purchase) -- pt. 7. Treaty 72 -- pt. 8. The Long Fight for the Rights to Their Fishery.