The Hó'nehe family spent many years learning from the Arapaho and Cheyenne in the Wyoming wilderness before departing their human friends and beginning the Hó'nehe Tribe with the plan of applying the ways of the Natives to wolven life. Bringing together other wolf families whom the Hó'nehe family invited to join their new nation, the Hó'nehe Tribe was born in the early 1600s.

The eldest Hó'nehe became the first Me'ko (Leader) of the Tribe, while elders from the other families were to occupy the Tsehata'a (Elder) ranks to counsel the Me'ko in their decisions. While the Tsehata'a ranks changed hands based one whom was the oldest amongst the Tribe, the Me'ko rank was hereditary: the oldest child of the Me'ko assumed that rank when the reigning Me'ko died or abdicated their position.

This meant that the Tribe was ever under the control of the Hó'nehe family, as the other families peaceably agreed it should be. Spare for the occasional disagreement, intra-tribe politics have always been cordial, with everyone assuming their ancestral place in the Tribe without complaint.

In the early 1990s, the only Hó'nehe child — a daughter named Namid who was heir to the Me'ko rank — ran away with a lover. The leadership of the pack was passed to the Hó'nehe's closest advisors and friends, the Saqui.

But they too died out and disappeared, leaving the pack without any clear cut leadership …