Little Spirit Bear Productions is a First Nations (Anishinabe, Ojibwa) multi-media company that was created in 2005 by Chad Solomon, Grandson of a Native traditional healer and justice activist Art Solomon, to share the humorous adventures of Rabbit and Bear Paws.
This fresh and funny comic strip for the young and young at heart is created and drawn with the guidance of his community elders in collaboration with writer Christopher Meyer. The first series of comic strips are based upon the teachings of The Seven Grandfathers (wisdom from the Anishinabek Community) and are rapidly gaining enthusiastic fans for their vibrant and entertaining images of Native traditions and oral history.
I, Chad Solomon am a member of the Ojibway First Nation in Ontario, Canada. As a child, my family and I would visit with my late Grandparents in the French River area. My Grandfather Art Solomon, a healer and traditional healer and activist would spend his time building wooden toys and playing with me and my siblings. Even in winter he would go tobogganing with us. Learning from my Grandfather, no matter how old I become, I should always be young-at-heart and that laughter is the greatest medicine.
I've always remembered what Alwyn Morris, Olympic Mowhawk athlete used to say. "If you have it in your to dream, you have it in you to succeed." That is my personal motto and part of the message behind Rabbit and Bear Paws. |