If You Lived with the Indians of the Northwest Coast

If You Lived with the Indians of the Northwest Coast

Author: Anne Kamma

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 63

ISBN-13: 9780439260770

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An addition to a popular history series presents a child's eye view of the Native American cultures of America's northern Pacific coast, showing their housing, clothing, social structure, religious customs, occupations, and more. Original.


Northwest Coast Indians Coloring Book

Northwest Coast Indians Coloring Book

Author: David Rickman

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1984-01-01

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 9780486247281

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Thirty-three black-and-white drawings representing aspects of the culture and society of Indians of the Northwest coast.


Native Nations of the Northwest Coast

Native Nations of the Northwest Coast

Author: Anita Yasuda

Publisher:

Published: 2015-08

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781634070331

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Examines the culture of some of the Native American groups that live on the northwest coast of America, including the Tlingit, Haida, and Chinook peoples.


Northwest Coast Indian Art

Northwest Coast Indian Art

Author: Bill Holm

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: 2014-12-01

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 0295999500

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The 50th anniversary edition of this classic work on the art of Northwest Coast Indians now offers color illustrations for a new generation of readers along with reflections from contemporary Northwest Coast artists about the impact of this book. The masterworks of Northwest Coast Native artists are admired today as among the great achievements of the world’s artists. The painted and carved wooden screens, chests and boxes, rattles, crest hats, and other artworks display the complex and sophisticated northern Northwest Coast style of art that is the visual language used to illustrate inherited crests and tell family stories. In the 1950s Bill Holm, a graduate student of Dr. Erna Gunther, former Director of the Burke Museum, began a systematic study of northern Northwest Coast art. In 1965, after studying hundreds of bentwood boxes and chests, he published Northwest Coast Indian Art: An Analysis of Form. This book is a foundational reference on northern Northwest Coast Native art. Through his careful studies, Bill Holm described this visual language using new terminology that has become part of the established vocabulary that allows us to talk about works like these and understand changes in style both through time and between individual artists’ styles. Holm examines how these pieces, although varied in origin, material, size, and purpose, are related to a surprising degree in the organization and form of their two-dimensional surface decoration. The author presents an incisive analysis of the use of color, line, and texture; the organization of space; and such typical forms as ovoids, eyelids, U forms, and hands and feet. The evidence upon which he bases his conclusions constitutes a repository of valuable information for all succeeding researchers in the field. Replaces ISBN 9780295951027


Indians of the Pacific Northwest

Indians of the Pacific Northwest

Author: Vine Deloria, Jr.

Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing

Published: 2016-07-06

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 1555917658

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The Pacific Northwest was one of the most populated and prosperous regions for Native Americans before the coming of the white man. By the mid-1800s, measles and smallpox decimated the Indian population, and the remaining tribes were forced to give up their ancestral lands. Vine Deloria Jr. tells the story of these tribes’ fight for survival, one that continues today.


Unsettling Native Art Histories on the Northwest Coast

Unsettling Native Art Histories on the Northwest Coast

Author: Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: 2020-07-20

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 0295747145

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Inseparable from its communities, Northwest Coast art functions aesthetically and performatively beyond the scope of non-Indigenous scholarship, from demonstrating kinship connections to manifesting spiritual power. Contributors to this volume foreground Indigenous understandings in recognition of this rich context and its historical erasure within the discipline of art history. By centering voices that uphold Indigenous priorities, integrating the expertise of Indigenous knowledge holders about their artistic heritage, and questioning current institutional practices, these new essays "unsettle" Northwest Coast art studies. Key themes include discussions of cultural heritage protections and Native sovereignty; re-centering women and their critical role in transmitting cultural knowledge; reflecting on decolonization work in museums; and examining how artworks function as living documents. The volume exemplifies respectful and relational engagement with Indigenous art and advocates for more accountable scholarship and practices.


Nations of the Northwest Coast

Nations of the Northwest Coast

Author: Kathryn Smithyman

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780778703785

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The northwest coast of the Pacific Ocean has been home to many Native nations for thousands of years. The waters, mountains, and forests of this isolated region provided food and shelter for groups such as the Tlingit, the Haida, and the Kwakiutl. Topics covered in Nations of the NorthwestCoast include:* the distinct customs, cultures, and beliefs of the various nations* dwellings used in different seasons and locales* fishing and the use of coastal plants and animals* traditional handicrafts, including carving and weaving* the organization of families, clans, and moieties* the impact of the arrival of the Europeans


Aboriginal Slavery on the Northwest Coast of North America

Aboriginal Slavery on the Northwest Coast of North America

Author: Leland Donald

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-09-01

Total Pages: 411

ISBN-13: 0520918118

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With his investigation of slavery on the Northwest Coast of North America, Leland Donald makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the aboriginal cultures of this area. He shows that Northwest Coast servitude, relatively neglected by researchers in the past, fits an appropriate cross-cultural definition of slavery. Arguing that slaves and slavery were central to these hunting-fishing-gathering societies, he points out how important slaves were to the Northwest Coast economies for their labor and for their value as major items of exchange. Slavery also played a major role in more famous and frequently analyzed Northwest Coast cultural forms such as the potlatch and the spectacular art style and ritual systems of elite groups. The book includes detailed chapters on who owned slaves and the relations between masters and slaves; how slaves were procured; transactions in slaves; the nature, use, and value of slave labor; and the role of slaves in rituals. In addition to analyzing all the available data, ethnographic and historic, on slavery in traditional Northwest Coast cultures, Donald compares the status of Northwest Coast slaves with that of war captives in other parts of traditional Native North America.


Northwest Coast Indians

Northwest Coast Indians

Author: Liz Sonneborn

Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library

Published: 2011-07

Total Pages: 49

ISBN-13: 1432949497

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This title teaches readers about the first people to live in the Northwest Coast region of North America. It discusses their culture, customs, ways of life, interactions with other settlers, and their lives today.


Keeping it Living

Keeping it Living

Author: Douglas Deur

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 0774812672

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Keeping It Living brings together some of the world'smost prominent specialists on Northwest Coast cultures to examinetraditional cultivation practices from Oregon to Southeast Alaska. Itexplores tobacco gardens among the Haida and Tlingit, managed camasplots among the Coast Salish of Puget Sound and the Strait of Georgia,estuarine root gardens along the central coast of British Columbia,wapato maintenance on the Columbia and Fraser Rivers, and tended berryplots up and down the entire coast. With contributions from a host of experts, Native American scholarsand elders, Keeping It Living documents practices ofmanipulating plants and their environments in ways that enhancedculturally preferred plants and plant communities. It describes howindigenous peoples of this region used and cared for over 300 speciesof plants, from the lofty red cedar to diminutive plants of backwaterbogs.