From the Preface by Buffy Sainte-Marie:

Alanis Obomsawin has been a unique and special leader in the development of Indigenous thought, scholarship, accuracy, and activism, doing it through the arts, and inspiring really every facet of the Indigenous artistry of today, from fashion to film-making.

An activist who got the facts right first, and then found multiple ways to distribute that knowledge to the rest of us, she researched it from the inside: she wrote it; she filmed it; she produced it; she sang about it; she directed it; she developed it; and she got it seen – when most people would have denied any of that was possible, let alone to be accomplished by an Indigenous woman.