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Acknowledgements
I am grateful to the many people who have advised me, assisted me, worked with me, and offered encouragement in the realization of this book. I appreciate the support of everyone at Anansi, in particular Kate McQuaid, Trish Osuch, and Kelly Joseph. Thanks to Peter Norman for his thoughtful and precise copyedit of the manuscript.
I am especially grateful to Anansi publisher Sarah MacLachlan for her warm encouragement and constant backing over the past two years.
Many thanks to Nan Froman, Michael Solomon, and my good friend Patsy Aldana at Groundwood for their collaboration on the associated book for young readers, titled Tecumseh . Working with artist Richard Rudnicki on that project has been richly rewarding.
As always, my literary agent, Jackie Kaiser, did a great job with the book at the proposal stage and in making the link with House of Anansi.
My gratitude goes out to the people on the island of Guernsey who assisted me during my visit there in March 2011. I am grateful for the helpful input of Dr. Jason Monaghan, Director of the Guernsey Museum, and Amanda Bennett, Chief Librarian of the Priaulx Library. Thanks to my good friend Catharine Walter for hosting me and organizing my schedule. Many thanks to Liz Head, who helped so much in setting up meetings. I greatly enjoyed meeting and benefitting from the insights of historian Gillian Lenfestey. Olly Brock, a descendant of the family whose most illustrious member was Sir Isaac, welcomed me into his home. I am indebted to him for his generosity in offering stories, interpretation, and sources with respect to his famous namesake.
I am deeply grateful to my colleague Professor David T. McNab in the Department of Equity Studies at York University for reviewing the manuscript and offering advice. Davidâs scholarship and published works on indigenous peoples have been a great source of knowledge and perspective for me.
Paul-Ãmile McNab, who has toiled with me for a year and a half, doing research and tracking down sources, has been