Allen Sapp at the 2005 Centennial launch of Through the Eyes of the Cree in North Battleford.
Allen's achievements go well beyond artistic merit. He provides us with a rare glimpse of daily subsistance in Saskatchewan aboriginal communities during the 1930's. The unadorned honesty with which Allen lays on canvas the scenes he witnessed as a child constitute a vivid and priceless record of the strategies employed by a hunting-gathering society forced to adopt new economic means of survival.
I am proud to have helped in make this interpretive milestone become reality.
Photo credit: Paul A. Sayers, MPA, F/SPPA
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