In addition to book that I craft myself, I also have done a number of anthology pieces. And I was asked to write about a contemporary woman, Teara Fraser who created the first Indigenous woman owned airline from scratch. And I couldn’t fathom such a thing, you know.
But I was delighted to interview her. She created Iskwew Air, which is the Cree word for woman. I talked to her daughter, who works with her, as well as a number of other women in the airline industry in British Columbia, Native and non-Native, and then a young man who also had been mentored by her. So DC Comics put together this anthology of contemporary and historic women — it’s titled “The Wonderful Women of the World.”
And wow, so wonderful to work on that and to be paired with Natasha Donovan again, because they had asked for me for illustrators, so I gave them a list of Native women illustrators that I thought would be great for the project, and they selected Natasha. So, it’s just wonderful to get to work together, and like I say craft Teara’s story to be shared with the world.
