Martine J. Reid

Northwest Coast peoples were maritime engineers who mastered the art of building dugout canoes from gigantic red cedars, using only tools made from bone, stone, and wood. Ubiquitous, these elegant craft were used for everyday and ceremonial purposes, for fishing, hunting and trading, for feasting and potlatching, and in warfare—they were the keys …

Carrying on "Irregardless" is a handsomely illustrated paperback based on the first exhibition to focus on humour in Northwest Coast First Nations art. The show, mounted by the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art in Vancouver is titled after one of Bill Reid's favourite deliberate grammatical blunders that were part of the sense of humour that …

The first-ever biography written about a woman of the NorthwestCoast's Kwakwakawakw people, Paddling to Where I Stand presents thememoirs of Agnes Alfred (c.1890-1992), a non-literate nobleQwiqwasutinuxw woman of the Kwakwakawakw Nation and one of the lastgreat storytellers among her peers in the classic oral tradition. AgnesAlfred documents throug …