At twentysix Noel Starblanket was one of the youngest Indigenous chiefs in North Americatwice elected chief of the Starblanket Reserve and also elected vicepresident of allSaskatchewan Indigenous organization His greatgrandfathers advice was to learn the wit and cunning of the White man That he did Here he is seen in action a chief with a briefcase working with government officials for grants running for public office talking down his opposition and solving the domestic problems of his reserve