Leroy Fontaine didn’t have to look far for inspiration when he wrote his new book.
“I chose to write a children’s book on Indigenous culture,” Fontaine said. “It’s been a dream of mine for a long time now.”
“Sekweha the Superkid and his Cultural Cape” was inspired by Fontaine’s own life. The author lives in Halifax but he grew up in the Chipewyan Prairie First Nation in northern Alberta.
“It’s actually my life, my story, in a book and it’s about a kid who grows up on the reserve with his grandparents and in that he actually gains a lot of his culture,” Fontaine said. “Through that he gets a gifted cultural cape from his grandmother that holds a lot of positive affirmations that helps him get through a lot of those challenging times.”
Fontaine, a firefighter, father of three and former athlete does a lot of public speaking about growing up in a residential community, but he thought it …