Firekeeper’s Daughter

As Daunis continues to read her uncle’s notebooks, she learns that he also came to a dead end with the mushrooms on Duck Island. She then tells Ron and Jamie that either the mushrooms on Duck Island aren’t the cause of the group hallucinations or the mushrooms that were used are out of season and they won’t find them now anyway. While Daunis is trying to mine Ron for information about the Native kids in Minnesota who had the group hallucination, she realizes that the kids weren’t hallucinating because they were seeing the Little People, just like Travis did before he died and like Leonard’s cousin did when he was doing drugs also. The Little People were trying to warn the kids, just like they were trying to warn Travis and Leonard’s cousin, that something bad was going to happen to them if they continued doing drugs. The kids weren’t having a group hallucination because the Little People are real. Ron doesn’t give Daunis any clear plan for what she should do next during this conversation, but she does remember him saying, “We can’t tell you to search the hockey team’s gear bags for disposable cell phones” (323). Daunis decides to search the bags at a later date.