Key Selling Points:

• The Mighty Muskrat Mysteries consistently in top sellers month to month. This is the fifth book in the series but not the last: expecting at least one more!
• Portrays Indigenous experiences through an Indigenous perspective. The mystery revolves around a missing surveyors pin that could resolve a conflict over who Windy Lake First Nations land belongs to.
• The Mighty Muskrats series has been praised by the Globe & Mail, Kirkus, Quill & Quire, Winnipeg Free Press, and more for being an excellent representation of a happy and successful Indigenous community with strong family relations and cultural practices.
• Michael Hutchinson is a citizen of the Misipawistik Cree Nation in the Treaty 5 territory.
• Michael Hutchinson helped create the “We are all treaty people” campaign as a communications officer for the Assembly of First Nations and is currently the Communications Manager at the Manitoba First Nations Education Resource Centre.

The Windy Lake First Nation’s lands have been shared with cottagers for fifty years, but no one can agree on where the reserve land ends. The only thing that can prove the boundary is a steel surveyor’s pin with the borders of the Windy Lake reserve etched into its head.

When the Mighty Muskrats hear that the pin was stolen years ago—and that it is connected to their grandpa’s mysterious past—they make it their mission to find the missing pin and prove that the land belongs to their people. But the mystery gets tense when Grandpa becomes a suspect. Cousins Sam, Otter, Atim, and Chickadee must find that pilfered pin!

Windy Lake First Nation has long been shared with cottagers, but now everyone’s arguing over who really owns the land. When the Mighty Muskrats learn that a stolen surveyor’s pin could solve the conflict, the four cousins make it their mission to find it and prove that the land belongs to their people!