For Tyrese, history class is the lowest point of his school day. That is, until his friend Levi reveals a secret, a secret that brings history alive, in the form of one Gabriel Dumont, a great Métis leader of the Northwest Resistance, the boys experience a bison hunt, a skirmish with the Blackfoot, an encounter with the great Louis Riel, and, ultimately, a great battle at Batoche, Saskatchewan.