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Strong women dominate these reminiscences: the grandmother taught the girl whose mother refused to let her go to school, and the life-changing events they witnessed range from the ravages of the influenza epidemic of 1918-20, to murder committed in a jealous rage, to the abduction of a young woman by underground spirits.

Born in 1912, Alice Ahenakew was brought up in a traditional Cree community in Saskatchewan. As a young woman, she married Andrew Ahenakew, a member of a prominent Saskatchewan family, who later became an Anglican clergyman. Alice's personal reminiscences include stories of her childhood, courtship and marriage, as well as an account of the 1928 influenza epidemic and encounters with a windigo.