Holly Quan

Poetic names such as Assiniboine, Crowfoot, Crowchild, Blackfoot, Shaganappi, Deerfoot, Huron or Algonquin remind us of Canada history as it relates to North American aboriginals (Indians); nowhere more so than in central Canada where close to 50% of present aboriginals lives. For many people today, not much is signified by those names. But only recently, some of our grandfathers have seen original aboriginal life style, traded goods with them, sometimes feared them. This recent history is vividly reminded to us by brief and simple narrative of Holly Quan in Native Chiefs, and Famous Métis. The book talks of the difficult period when hunter-gatherer lifestyle – tough and free – was made finally impossible in North America by the clash of virtually stone-age society with modern society.… (meer)