Freddie the Flyer (HC) Siksika Alfred Semple

Alfred Semple

In Our Precious Corn: Yukwanénste

Readers can view the story in syllabics or English

is a poetry collection concerned with notions of home and the quotidian attachments we feel to those notions

dedicated himself to supporting chiefs in their claim to land that had been taken away from them and in their determination to seize control of the colonial political system

Freddie the Flyer (HC) Siksika Alfred SempleThis picture book pays homage to aviator Fred Carmichael the first Northern Indigenous commercial pilot with each month of the year highlighting moments from his career, the beauty of the North and the power of dreams. When Fred Carmichael was twelve years old, he saw a plane up close for the first time when it dropped off supplies in his remote community. With that one look, he was hooked. Fred spent 60 years as a pilot, doing everything from supply