The Adventures of Sajo and Her Beaver People

The Adventures of Sajo and Her Beaver People
	First edition cover
Author	Grey Owl
Illustrator	Grey Owl
Country	Canada
Language	English
Genre	Children's literature Adventure fiction
Publisher	Lovat Dickson & Thompson Limited
Publication date	1935
Media type	Print
Pages	256

The Adventures of Sajo and Her Beaver People is a children's adventure novel, written and illustrated by the Canadian author Grey Owl (1888–1938). It was first published in 1935 in Great Britain by Lovat Dickson & Thompson Limited and in Canada by Macmillan of Canada. Publications by other publishing houses, such as Charles Scribner's Sons in the United States, followed.^[1] The book has been translated into many languages.^[2]

Plot edit

Sajo, a young Indian girl, and her older brother, Shapian, adopt two orphaned beaver kits, Chilawee and Chikanee. The children have lost their mother, and the father, Big Feather, must leave them for a time to pay off a debt to the "Company" by working in a "canoe brigade". With no money to support them while he is away, he trades Chikanee for provisions. The beaver is then sold to an amusement park in the city.

Distraught, the children decide to travel to the city with Chilawee and try to rescue Chikanee. They first travel by canoe through a terrifying forest fire to Rabbit Portage, a frontier town on the railroad. There they are befriended by a missionary, who is presented as a "white brother to the Indians". He takes up a collection among the tourists and residents of the town to raise money for their train tickets. Arriving in the city, they encounter Pat O'Reilly, an Irish policeman, who helps them locate Chikanee and convince the park owner to release the beaver to them. To their great joy, Chilawee and Chikanee were reunited: "And there, before all those people, they began to wrestle."