A Canadian film about the life of Augusta Evans. During her long years, Augusta has witnessed travel by stagecoach and river steamer, as well as experiencing the Gold Rush. The daughter of a Shuswap Indian, she was brought up at a Roman Catholic Mission school and in 1903 she married a white man and lost her standing as an Indian. Now, at the age of 88, she lives in a log cabin without running water or electricity in the Cariboo mountain country of British Columbia.
