.....Back cover excerpts: The story of the Metis people of the Round Prairie settlement at the turn of the century is a story of broken dreams and a future won through courage It is a story of fun-loving, semi-nomadic people who loved the prairie land, but love life even more.
..... Rita Schilling is a Saskatchewan writer with an extensive background in radio, television, and print journalism. Her on-going affiliation with the Metis and Indian culture has developed through many years of research and writing that reflects the particular concerns of this significant segment of the prairie population.
..... To read Gabriel's Children is to be taken into the past through memories communicated with clarity and retold in context with the recorded fats of yesterday, and the social history of today.