The Buckskin Ceiling

Alfred Young Man, PhD (Eagle Chief) is a Cree enrolled member of the Chippewa-Cree Indian Reservation in Rocky Boy, Montana and Professor Emeritus of the University of Lethbridge and University of Regina. Born in Browning, Montana on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, his paternal and maternal Cree grandparent’s were from the Duck Lake area reserves in Saskatchewan and the Ermineskin and Cold Lake reserves in Alberta. Young Man has had numerous paintings, articles, essays, book reviews and art critiques published in art catalogues, newspapers, magazines, on internet web pages, and in refereed journals. He has travelled extensively throughout the world presenting at conferences and universities in Japan to South Africa to Paris to Rome to Yale to Australia, Germany, Mexico, California, Sweden, Finland, Canada, the United States and so forth.