Chenoa

' No! Enough! I can't live with you anymore Hakan! Go back to your territory. Find a mate! Raise cubs!My home's not with you. It's somewhere else.'

— Chenoa to Hakan in River of Lost Bears page 104

Template:Infobox Chenoa is a young female black bear.

History

Seekers: Return to the Wild

River of Lost Bears

Chenoa assists Toklo and the Seekers on part of their journey to find Toklo and Lusa's home. After many encounters with both Chenoa and Hakan, her brother, Toklo finally agreed to save her from Hakan. Hakan always bossed her around because she reminded him of their mother who got hit by a firebeast trying to save Chenoa on the BlackPath.

Chenoa and all the others are overjoyed that she was able to travel with them, and Lusa is especially shown to bond with her.  But along the way, when they have to cross a treacherous river to escape flat-faces, Chenoa is hit by a floating stick and dies falling over the edge of the waterfall. Lusa is crushed by this, and descends into a dark mood that Kallik says she's never seen before.

Later, Lusa finds Chenoa's spirit-tree. A little while after, Lusa sees that flat-faces had transfered Chenoa's spirit-tree to the river with a lot of other spirits, drowning them. Lusa finally persuaded her hesitant friends to save the spirit-trees.

With the help of moose and beaver Ujurak, Lusa and her friends push away the flat-face "vine" and free the spirits, including Chenoa.

Trivia

•  Chenoa's spirit-tree is a birch tree.
• Chenoa's name means "dove" in Native American language.[1]