The year is 1959, and fifteen-year-old Nipishish returns to his reserve in northern Quebec after being kicked out of residential school, where the principal tells him he can look forward, like all Native Americans, to a life of drunkenness, prison, and despair. But despite his new freedom, the reserve offers little to a young M tis man. Both his parents are dead, his father Shipu, a respected leader, dying mysteriously at a young age. When Nipishish...