What lies behind the Picture?: a personal journey into Cree ancestry

A personal journey into Cree Ancestry. For most of his life, Vernon Wishart knew nothing about his ancestry. It was his father's secret. By accident a clue surfaced - his great-grandmother's medicine bag - and the mystery of his ancestry began to unfold. Building on the research of his sister, Shirley, he traced his family lineage back 250 years to Hudson's Bay Company fur traders and their Native and Mixed-Blood wives. Behind the names on the genealogical chart, he discovered intriguing life stories of hardship and heroism, discrimination and reconciliation. "What Lies Behind the Picture?" combines exciting storytelling with thorough historical detective work. Vernon Wishart situates his family story within a series of historic events that influenced the shape of Western Canada, and in a thoughtful and personal way, he reflects on an unspoken racial divide that endures in Canada to this day.