"Conversation over the supper table was always lively, our mother Mary very much held her own meanwhile David was ready with a reference book to look up something that was being disputed."

On other days, you’d likely find him on the gallery’s mezzanine, buried among stacks of reference books to examine the artistic and historical quality of centuries-old and contemporary lithographs, etchings, engravings and other prints.

Alsobrook scoured reference books, databases and other online resources, to no avail.

Thanks to this painstaking manual work, reference books with idealized depictions of individual embryonic stages are available for many animal species today.

With knowledge gained through working at FSI, volunteering with AmeriCorps and consuming numerous reference books and YouTube videos, EagleFeather's homestead is now one of Rosebud's most productive examples of food sovereignty.