Wiebe, Rudy Henry

Nine-year-old Eric recalls a Christmas on the prairies of Canada that was memorable for both the Chinook wind that year, and a mysterious gift left on the doorstep.

A story based on a Cree legend, in which a Cree village suffering the mysterious disappearance of the buffalo herds must decide whether to risk war or starvation after one of its children has a vision of the buffalo in the Badlands, the home of an enemy tribe.