In the late 1800s, Jesuit missionaries working in North-Central British Columbia recorded the oral histories of the Yinka Dene people. Based on one of these histories, Tales Our Enemies Tell is the story of the aging Hadintel, chief of the village of Chinlac, who in self-defense unknowingly kills the only son of the Silquotin dennza. Anticipating retaliation, Hadintel sends his lifelong friend Jantalok to investigate the Silquotin village and determine their plans. Captured, then bewitched by a Silquotin woman, Jantalok returns to Chinlac to betray his chief.

Born in Nanaimo BC and raised in Prince George BC, Dan Biggs graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Science degree and worked for twenty years with the BC Government as a forester. He lives with his wife on Vancouver Island.

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Dan Biggs brings history to life with this brilliant story based on the violent masscre at the village of Chinlac and the subsequent revenge sought by the survivors. This well researched novel give the modern reader great insight into the society of the First Nations people pre-European contact.

N. Bell