Ghost mask by Cole Speck

Ghost mask by Cole SpeckThis piece was featured in our Resilience exhibit. 27x21x13 (cm) The Ghost masks, generally with roughly carved surfaces, white pigmentation, and tufts of hair, demonstrate a skeletal quality suggestive of ghostliness. The ghosts live in a village underground, called sometimes "the lowest one". Everything in the ghost village is the same as in our world, only their day is our night, our night their day. Living beings are invisible to them, but they

Nyvkh and Ulchi from Siberia

when awareness from both Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities is at a crescendo

" We meet "the Cougar Queen of Okeover Arm

who knew the secrets of fishing for spring salmon in winter

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" --New York Times Book Review

In clear and lively prose

of The Totem Pole: An Intercultural History

One’s spirit is only one way of saying

but it's also a beacon of hope and a step on the journey toward reconciliation

CBC Best Canadian Young Adult and Children's Books  | 2017 | Commended

fish camps and coastal village elders