Summary

The Prologue is titled “A New Hunt.” The narrator describes the town of Arcand and its history. The original Natives here were resettled from Drummond Island in 1828. Those Natives were “halfbreeds, the children of French voyageurs and First Nations mothers, and Metis people who had journeyed from Manitoba” (1). American took possession of Drummond Island but did not want the Natives. They settled near the water, but were then moved inland as that shorefront property soared in value. Some Natives held onto pieces of land, vowing to get back what their people had lost. The Natives formed Arcand inland, and 200 years later were still not welcome across the bay. The rogarou remained an important part of the Native culture – the threat against those who had broken Lent, slept with a married woman, took more than a fair share of game, disrespected a mother...