Forword -- Introduction -- Preface -- Map -- The ménage -- Broken circle -- The morning routine -- Family gatherings at the Point -- Older siblings -- -- Early mornings with Alfred Mann -- My dad, my hero -- Blueberry days -- Wild rice/life lessons -- Bush-camp adventures -- On whose authority? -- Lessons in fear -- My language is Ojibway -- Friday fruits -- Mind, body and soul -- Killing the Indian in the child -- Struggling to succeed -- Chubby -- From Dachau to Newfoundland to Fort Alexander -- Apologies -- "Come in, Tci-ga" -- Family tree -- Acknowledgements -- Afterword -- Theodore Niizhotay Fontaine (1941-2021).