Perfectly decent beginning chapter book with a little extra in the department of the Pacific Northwest, the Muckleshoot Nation and a tender spot for Sasquatches. I appreciate very much that Joseph Bruchac was a contributor, and that the Muckleshoot community was involved in the creation of this book. Weirdly, I sometimes felt like it was reinforcing stereotypes about Native Americans, rather than exploding them (the whole nickname thing was uncomfortable), but on the whole it's a decent, silly adventure that touches on respecting Tribal autonomy and saving the environment and those are things that I can get behind.

Upon re-reading, I felt that there was a lot more in there, hiding behind the silly banter. There's a discussion of cultural genocide and the removal of children, for example. There are careful references to healthy and respectful interactions with nature as well. ( )