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Remembering Benjamin Chee Chee
His star burned brightly but all too briefly, leaving behind both great art and a tragic story. Benjamin Chee Chee’s stylized Canada geese are instantly familiar to most Canadians, but the struggles the Ojibwa artist encountered throughout his life are less well known. Ernie Bies, who met Chee Chee more than forty years ago, spoke to Canada’s History features editor Nancy Payne about his friend.
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