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Drew Hayden Taylor’s Take Us to Your Chief and Other Stories brings us to the new terra nullius. Native sci-fi is a genre most people are not used to because science fiction and Native people do not fit together. The closest thing to Native sci-fi people have seen is a Star Trek series called “The Paradise Syndrome.” Part of writing, Taylor hopes that his interest in science fiction should allow him to do something unconventional. He has written a play called Toronto at Dreamer’s Rockthat has played with the idea of Native sci-fi, but the time never seemed right until now. That’s why Taylor’s intentions with these short stories is to help bring people to explore science fiction through Native people’s minds.

Being half Ojibway, he has always wondered why stories of Indigenous people were very restricted to a limited perspective. As a writer, Taylor’s goal is to explore the life of Indigenous people through Native science fiction to show us different perspectives in hopes of broadening Native literature. His personal goals are to open up people’s minds, regarding the negative associations connected with Indigenous people. Indigenous people and their existence are more than the negative associations people have made about them. Being that we’re in the 21stCentury, Taylor thinks Native Science Fiction should be something that needs to be explored. Lastly, he mentions that he had a whole lot of fun with writing this project.