For half of a millennium First Nations women have been at the forefront of aboriginal peoples resistance to cultural assimilation Today Native women are still fighting for the survival of their cultures and their peoplesin the rain forest and the city in the courts and the legislatures in the Longhouse and the media Keepers of the Fire profiles Canadas Native warrior women who are protecting and defending their land their culture and their people in the timehonoured tradition of their foremothers