Portraits From the Plains

Hardcover with dust jacket, 287 pages, 5.5x8.75 in - 14.5x22 cm, B&W illustrations and photographs.

Back cover bottom edge corner bumped. Spine lightly bumped at head and heel. Brodart-wrapped jacket rubbed at edges/corners and creased; jacket back bears small closed tears. Top edge lightly soiled. Title page inscribed by author: “To Chief Justice E. M. Culliton, With pleasant Saskatchewan memories and best wishes, Grant MacEwan.”

Grant MacEwan (1902-2000) was an agriculturalist at the Universities of Saskatchewan and Manitoba before turning to federal politics and being appointed Lieutenant Governor of Alberta in the 1960s. As an author, MacEwan is best remembered for his works on western Canadian history. In this volume, he writes brief biographies of 32 First Nations men (and one nameless female “Lady Warrior”) whose lives held cultural, historical, or political importance in western Canada. Subjects range from well-known historical figures (such as Poundmaker and Big Bear) to contemporary artists and activists (such as Allan Sapp and James Gladstone). Note signature of Edmonton Police officer Samuel Donaghey (Order of Canada, 1981) on p.233 in the section dedicated to Edmonton’s first Indigenous police officer Alex Decoteau.

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