David Mills, 61, has lived a full life since he was a nine-year-old boy carving his name into a stone on a sunny spring day in 1972.

Adam Flint is a homeowner in east London, redoing his garden and always on the lookout for free rocks. When he picked up a pile of free stones in the White Oaks neighbourhood in London, Ont.,he didn't know he was also picking up a mystery.

It wa a bit of a fluke that Sereena Nahmabinfound herself surrounded by more than twodozen other Indigenous womenshe barely knew, sharing stories about the experiences that have shaped them.