Carl Beam's iconic work The North American Iceberg, 1985, was the first piece by an Indigenous artist to be purchased by the National Gallery of Canada as contemporary art. This book, written by the artist's daughter, offers a mesmerizing portrait of Carl Beam's pioneering art and a chronicle of his extraordinary multimedia practice. Born in 1943 on Manitoulin Island to an Anishinaabe mother and American father, Beam was raised by his maternal grandparents and attended a residential school from age ten to eighteen.