Chad is a member of the Aanishinaabe community of Henvey Inlet First Nation in Ontario, Canada. His Indigenous publishing and entertainment company, Little Spirit Bear Productions, has published 54 titles and produced more than 3,000 performances of 13 original shows since 2005. In 2020, Chad launched the Biskane platform to connect Indigenous artists with merchants and customers.
After over 15 years of travelling more than 1,000,000 kilometres and performing more than 3,000 shows across Canada and the United States, Chad is now embarking on a new venture—an Indigenous art ecosystem called Biskane.com. Launched in 2022, Biskane is a holistic digital ecosystem: a single port of call for art merchants and consumers to acquire verified Indigenous art.
“It’s been a long, hard story. But we’re not complaining about the past. We’re going to identify it. We’re going to take hold of the present and make the future what we want it to be because we are the final teachers in this sacred land. And all we have to do is teach our sisters and brothers how to live in harmony together as men and women.” – Dr. Art Solomon, LLB, D.D., Concordia University Convocation, Montreal, June 3, 1992
