Setting: Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley is set in Sault Saint Marie, Michigan. The protagonist Daunis Fontaine’s life straddles two adjacent and occasionally overlapping communities, one of her white French Canadian mother and the other of the Sugar Land Ojibwe Tribe of her late father.
Characters:
Daunis- Main character, bi-racial fierce and strong young woman, hockey fanatic, entering college as a freshmen
Lily- Daunis' best friend
Levi- Daunis' brother (paternal side)
Jamie- Levi's hockey team member who is new in town
Mom- well- this one is self-explained
Granny June- eccentric, edgy, loving, grandmother of Lily.
GrandMary- Maternal grandmother
Teddie- Daunis’ Aunt, is strong, protective, compassionate auntie
