Born into an isolated Indian village in Canada, Billy Edenshaw grew up under the protection of Raven, a trickster god.

For two centuries, Raven had protected the Niikwan village from the ravages of the white man’s arrival in Canada. He hid the people from the white man, and prevented the white man’s diseases from entering the village. In return, he asked that all the Niikwan shun all white men other than those the Raven trusted, and that no Niikwan should ever harm a raven. In exchange for those promises he drove Tax’et, the god of violent death, away from the village.

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