Canada's first prime minister helped Indigenous Peoples and tried to give women the vote
Brad Bird is an award-winning reporter and editor of English and Cree background. He trapped fur for years from his home on Turtle Mountain near Boissevain, Manitoba. His great great uncle, Jimmy-Jock Bird, became a Blackfoot chief and helped translate Treaty No. 7 at Blackfoot Crossing in 1877. Birds Hill Provincial Park is named after his family. He has worked for the Winnipeg Free Press and other newspapers.-- More...