The Elders Are Watching

“When award-winning poet David Bouchard first saw the artwork of First nations artist Roy Henry Vickers, he was struck by Vickers’s reverence for nature, the vibrancy of his colours, and his perceptive understanding of Canada’s rugged West Coast. He saw in Vickers’s images the perfect complement to his own lyrical, thought-ful poetry. Together, they collaborated on the paperback edition of The Elders Are Watching, which has delighted more than one hundred thousand readers in four languages. Says Bouchard, “Both Roy and I share similar dreams for our children. Through this book, we hope that others will come to share these dreams and together work toward correcting some of the mistakes of the past.”

In this new deluxe hardcover edition, their vision is as fresh and relevant today as it was when the book was first published. A plea to respect the natural treasures of our environment and a message of concern from aboriginal leaders of the past to the people of the 1990s, The Elders Are Watching has both a timelessness and an urgency that must be heard.”