In this volume are more than 125 biographies, which together demonstrate the diversity and depth of Saskatchewan's First Nations community and the contributions of First Nations people to the province.

"This book?provides an opportunity to set our history to paper? our stories, our experience, our realities, our wisdom, our worldview; perhaps what is most important, it is in our words?" Joan Beatyy, from her Foreword to Saskatchewan First Nations: Lives Past and Present