About this season
Life on an aboriginal reserve as seen through the eyes of young teens.
Episodes (12)
1. A Time to Be Brave
Aired 1 January 1984 • 29 min
Tafia has to overcome her fear of trains to help her father survive in the dead of winter at their trapper's cabin deep in the woods.
2. Rabbit Goes Fishing
Aired 17 January 1985 • 25 min
Ralph, a young orphan from the city is unfriendly when he arrives in Spirit Bay. Cheemo learns about the boy's false bravado that stems from his fear of rejection and convinces him he is at home with his people.
3. A Real Kid
Aired 16 January 1986 • 26 min
Rabbit finds out that his foster mother, Annie, is pregnant, and he runs away for fear he will be ignored.
4. The Blueberry Bicycle
Aired 16 January 1986 • 25 min
Elton uses his money to get spare parts for his bike from elder Teawash, and by doing so learns a valuable lesson in the town's bike race.
5. Words on a Page
Aired 1 January 1986 • 25 min
Lenore writes a story that could win her a scholarship in the city, but her father is reluctant to let her enter it in a contest.
6. Circle of Life
Aired 5 January 1986 • 25 min
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.
7. Hack’s Choice
Aired 8 January 1986 • 26 min
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.
8. Rabbit Pulls His Weight
Aired 16 January 1986 • 26 min
Rabbit literally pulls his weight when he helps out a pilot whose plane has crashed.
9. Hot News
Aired 16 January 1986 • 25 min
Mavis' cousin Mary wants to write an article about an old Indian recipe. The two end up fighting with one another in their canoe while a dangerous forest fire lingers nearby their grandmother's (Teawash's) home.
10. Big Save
Aired 12 January 1986 • 25 min
Spirit Bay's broom-ball team gets stranded in a blizzard and Rose has to use her survival know-how to save the kids.
11. Dancing Feathers
Aired 16 January 1986 • 26 min
Tafia is taken to Toronto for the annual pow wow festival where she is to dance.
12. The Pride of Spirit Bay
Aired 15 January 1986 • 25 min
Tafia learns the value of true art from her elders.