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• Beau Dick

  Revolutionary Spirit

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  "Beau Dick" presents eighty of the artist's finest masks and contextualizes his work within the Kwakwaka'wakw tradition, while also showing how Dick incorporated contemporary Western influences.

• Bill Reid Collected

  Reid, Bill, 1920-1998

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  Featuring the largest chronological collection of memorable works of Reid's career in full-colour photographs and images to date.

• Celebrating Inuit Art, 1948-1970

  Edited by Maria Von Finckenstein ; Essays by James Houston and Ann Meekitjuk Hanson

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  An impressive tribute to an art form that was virtually unknown fifty years ago and is now regularly featured in major art exhibitions worldwide.

• Dana Claxton

  Fringing the Cube

  Claxton, Dana,

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  Known for her expansive multidisciplinary approach to art making Vancouver-based Dana Claxton, who is Hunkpapa Lakota (Sioux), has investigated notions of Indigenous identity, beauty, gender and the body, as well as broader social and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dempsey Bob

  in His Own Voice

  Bob, Dempsey, 1948-

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  Based on the first full-scale solo museum exhibition and drawing from extensive interviews with the artist, this book presents the story of Dempsey Bob's life told his own way, including extensive and intimate reflections on the creation…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Gulgáa Ísgyaan Gwáa.u

  Xaadsgyáahlaangee, Jut-ke-Nay Hazel Wilson Gyáa Gyáat'ad

  Wilson, Hazel, 1941-2016,

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  An indepth look at ceremonial robes by the Haida artist Jut-Ke-Nay (The One People Speak Of) - also known as Hazel Anna Wilson - viewable in its entirety.

• HuupuKanum Tupaat

  Out of the Mist ; Treasures of the Nuu-chah-nulth Chiefs

  Black, Martha

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  HuupuKwanum and Tupaat are Nuu-chah-nulth words that designate everything a chief owns, including hereditary names and songs, objects, dances, rights and privileges, lands, and resources.

• Inuit Art; An Anthology

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  From the first magical amulets and weapons to the world-famous Cape Dorset prints, Inuit art is discussed by authorities such as Sheila Butler, Charlotte and Edward Lindgren, and Jean Blodgett. For the newcomer, a solid introduction to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Knowledge Within

  Treasures of the Northwest Coast

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  Looks into seventeen of the numerous sites in the Pacific Northwest region with major collections of Northwest Coast Indigenous material culture, bringing attention to a wide range of approaches to caring for and exhibiting such treasures.

• Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun

  Unceded Territories

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  Impassioned in his commitment to advance First Nations rights to the land and effect change, Yuxweluptun fuses art with political action--he "paints freedom and equality".

• Listening to Our Ancestors

  the Art of Native Life Along the North Pacific Coast

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  Sophisticated in conception and execution and rich with symbolism, the totem poles, painted housefronts, masks, dance regalia, feast bowls, and elaborately decorated boxes made by the native people of the North Pacific Coast have long been…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Nuu-chah-nulth Voices, Histories, Objects and Journeys

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  This collection of essays, personal narratives and historical accounts presents a variety of perspectives on the art and the artists of this vibrant Northwest Coastal people.

• Our Hands Remember

  Recovering Sanikiluaq Basket Sewing

  Lawrence, Margaret (Educator and artist),

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  Lawrence guides readers through creating their own grass baskets in the unique style of the Sanikiluaq region with step-by-step instructions and photographs.

• Qummut Qukiria!

  Art, Culture, and Sovereignty Across Inuit Nunaat and Sâapmi : Mobilizing the Circumpolar North

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  Celebrates art and culture within and beyond traditional Inuit and Sámi homelands in the Circumpolar Arctic — from the continuance of longstanding practices such as storytelling and skin sewing to the development of innovative new art…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Red

  a Haida Manga

  Yahgulanaas, Michael Nicoll

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  An innovation in contemporary storytelling from the creator of Haida Manga and the author of Flight of the Hummingbird; it consists of 108 pages of hand-painted illustrations, and when arranged the panels create a Haida formline image 13…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• S'abadeb

  The Gifts : Pacific Coast Salish Art and Artists

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  S'abadeb-The Gifts brings together current scholarship with indigenous knowledge for the first time. Twelve essays examine how the history and culture of gifts are reflected in art.

• SakKijâjuk

  Art and Craft From Nunatsiavut

  Igloliorte, Heather, 1979-

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  Nunatsiavut, the Inuit region of Canada that achieved self-government in 2005, produces art that is distinct within the world of Canadian and circumpolar Inuit art. SakKijâjuk: Art and Craft from Nunatsiavut is the first major publication…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• So Much More Than Art

  Indigenous Miniatures of the Pacific Northwest

  Davy, Jack

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  Jack Davy's highly original exploration of this intricate pursuit demonstrates the importance of miniaturization as a technique for communicating complex cultural ideas between generations and communities, as well as across the divide that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sonny Assu

  a Selective History

  Assu, Sonny, 1975-

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  A stunning retrospective highlighting the playfulness, power, and subversive spirit of Northwest Coast Indigenous artist Sonny Assu.

• Tales of Ghosts

  First Nations Art in British Columbia, 1922-61

  Hawker, Ronald W

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  The years between 1922 and 1961, often referred to as the "Dark Ages of Northwest Coast art," have largely been ignored by art historians, and dismissed as a period of artistic decline. Tales of Ghosts compellingly reclaims this era,…Read moreRead more of this annotation