LONGWOOD, FL-Chester and Tyler Chantyman live with their grandmother on the Nazko First Nations Reserve. Competing for the affection of their pretty next-door neighbor, Tonya, has been their biggest worry up to now. Then one snowy night in January, their grandmother has a stroke. The last place they want to take her is the hospital. Weeks earlier, the bustling logging town of Quesnel was invaded by a special task force of government agents bent on rescuing children they consider to be at risk. In the wake of their investigations, 72 children were taken from desperate parents. Fearing they'll be apprehended, Tyler, Chester, and Tonya attempt to escape to the Kluskus Reserve in the night. The road they must take is known as the Kluskus Trail, one of the most rugged in central British Columbia. Towing the seriously ill woman on a toboggan is tough enough. But traveling through grizzly, wolf, and moose territory, scaling a volcanic mountain, and crossing partially frozen rivers pushes their endurance and friendships to the limit. Based on a true story, Faye Cyr's Don't Look Back: The Kluskus Trail (paperback, 978-1-60477-118-3) documents the oppression of the Canadian First Nations people.
Says Cyr, "Though IÕm not First Nations, I feel Canadians owe a great debt to these people. I believe through the combined streams of faith and an informed political voice, the First Nations of North America will rise and take their respected place on the national stage."
While researching the facts about the Carrier people, the author discovered their standard of living was 63rd in the world, as compared with the rest of Canada, which was eighth in the world. This injustice fueled her passion to tell the rest of the country and the world about these people. "I want our young people to know the Carrier people of BC have made an important contribution to history," Cyr says. "And sometimes our enemies turn out to be our best friends."
Xulon Press, a part of Salem Communications Corporation, is the world's largest Christian publisher, with more than 3,900 titles published to date. Retailers may order DonÕt Look Back: The Kluskus Trail through Ingram Book Company and/or Spring Arbor Book Distributors. Salem Communications is the country's leading Christian communications company with interests in radio, Internet, and magazine publishing.
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2007