Tafia learns valuable lessons about survival at her family cabin deep in the wintry bush. (This was the first episode in the series and was shot as a short film in 1982).
Lenore finds a native skeleton. When a museum investigates and proceed to claim the bones the community is outraged, that is, until they find a way to bring the bones back for a proper ceremonial burial.
Hack's uncle Coleman, a former pro hockey player in the WHA, comes back to Spirit Bay to try to weasel him out of his family's medicine bag so he can sell it to collectors.
Lenore writes a story that could win her a scholarship in the prestigious school in a nearby city, but Pete is reluctant to allow her enter it in the contest.