''The Adventures of Sajo and her Beaver People'' is a 1935 children's adventure novel, written and illustrated by Canadian author Grey Owl. It was based on real-life events. The novel became a bestseller, and contributed to drawing half a million people to Grey Owl's lectures in the late 1930s. Within five years of its publication, it was translated into many European languages, including Polish and Russian.

Plot

Sajo, a young Ojibwe Indian girl, and her older brother adopt two young

beaver Beavers are large, semiaquatic rodents in the genus ''Castor'' native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere. There are two extant species: the North American beaver (''Castor canadensis'') and the Eurasian beaver (''C. fiber''). Beavers ar ...

s, Chilawee and Chikanee, and try to save them from fur traders.

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