The Lonely, Silvery Rain (Maggie Keiller/Derek Sloan Crime Series)

This gripping story centres around a 2018 ruling by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, awarding ten billion dollars to twenty-one First Nations along the northeast shore of Lake Huron in Ontario.

The settlement is compensation for unpaid annuities to those First Nations, payments that are mandatory under the still-valid, 1850 Robinson-Huron Treaty. Over the years, billions of dollars in profits were extracted from lands belonging to those First Nations for mining, timber, and fishing ent...