Take Us to Your Chief: and Other Stories

First edition, cover artist: Andy Everson

Take Us to Your Chief: and Other Stories is a collection of nine short stories by Canadian author, playwright, and journalist Drew Hayden Taylor published in 2016 by Douglas & McIntyre.[1][2] Taylor, who is part Caucasian, part Ojibwe,[3][4] explains in the acknowledgments section of the book that the origin of the project lies in several failed attempts "to compile an anthology of Native sci-fi from Canada’s best First Nations writers."[5] The stories explore contemporary First Nations social issues through employing a number of 1950s-era science fiction tropes and themes in these stories, including time travel, alien contact, and superpowers. Many reviews of the books have noted Taylor's use of humor to examine dark subject matter, such as the heritage of Canadian Indian residential schools, First Nations suicide rates, or the water quality crisis on Canadian reserves.[6][7][8][9][10][11]

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  2. ^ "Indigenous Reads: Drew Hayden Taylor blends science fiction with Indigenous story". CBC Radio. Retrieved 2018-05-07.
  3. ^ "Drew Hayden Taylor Gastpoet an der Universität Augsburg". www.uni-protokolle.de. Archived from the original on 2018-04-29. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  4. ^ "Drew Hayden Taylor writes Indigenous sci-fi he craved as a kid | CBC Radio". CBC. Retrieved 2018-05-07.
  5. ^ Taylor, Drew (2016). Take Us to Your Chief: and Other Stories. Madeira Par, British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada: Douglas & McIntyre. p. 147. ISBN 978-1771621311.
  6. ^ "Fiction Book Review: Take Us to Your Chief and Other Stories by Drew Hayden Taylor. Douglas & McIntyre (Partners Publishers Group, U.S. dist.; UTP, Canadian dist.), $18.95 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-1-77162-131-1". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  7. ^ "Take Us to Your Chief - Toronto Reads". www.editoreric.com. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  8. ^ "Aboriginal Sci-Fi: Take Us To Your Chief by Drew Hayden Taylor". Tor.com. 2017-04-12. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  9. ^ Wangersky, Russell (2016-09-06). "Take Us to Your Chief". Quill and Quire. Retrieved 2018-05-07.
  10. ^ Mazur, Christine (2016-10-08). "Message received". Winnipeg Free Press. Retrieved 2018-05-07.
  11. ^ "Review: New books from Sky Gilbert, Drew Hayden Taylor and others". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2018-05-07.