Time of the Thunderbird Justice Omakayas and her friend learn

Omakayas and her friend learn hard lessons when they take matters into their own hands and sneak off too early during wild rice gathering

go on a trip to harvest beluga whale from their home in Tuktoyuktuk

Challenging more than a century of colonial controls

One story recounts her love of reading and libraries

Time of the Thunderbird Justice Omakayas and her friend learnTime of the Thunderbird is a short fantasy novel by Coast Salish author Diane Silvey. Twins Tala and Kaya live in a mythical time along the British Columbia coast. In their village all the children are missing because of a powerful monster. The twins venture out into this fantastic world to locate the source of the problem and secure the return of the village's missing children. The story of the quest is told in narrative form in a series of episodes.