In 1998, Dzawada?enuxw artist Marianne Nicholson scaled a vertical rock face in Kingcome Inlet to paint a massive pictograph to mark the continued vitality of her ancestral village of Gwa?yi. Two Wolves at the Dawn of Time is the story of that painting, of earlier politically defiant rock art, and of "coppers," ceremonial shields that are a central motif in these images.
Judith Williams tracks the history of a culturally and geographically rich locale at a flashpoint in Native?white relations. She investigates the rock art around Kingcome Inlet, explores the disintegrating Halliday homestead, and plumbs the archives to measure colonialism?s legacy. Documenting Nicholson?s painting of the new pictograph, Williams describes the symbiosis of old and new that has seen Gwa?yi and the Kwakwaka?wakw prevail despite all attempts to eradicate their culture.
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-232) and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 971.1/100497
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn-bc
- ISBN
- 9781459311978 0921586841
- LCCN
- E78.N78
- LCCN Item number
- W54 2001eb
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- CaBNVSL
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- CaBVAU
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (240 p.)
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- CaOOCEL
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- (CaBNVSL)thg00603024 (OCoLC)288094559 (CaOOCEL)409281
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Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- 1. Wolf Pack 12
- 2. Haxwa'mis and Dzawada'enuxw 18
- 3. 'This Copper Just Like Big Bank' 26
- 4. Red Iron Oxide 46
- 5. Since the Flood 56
- 6. Girl in a Glass Skirt 70
- 7. 'From Comox to Kingcome Inlet in a Small Boat' 78
- 8. Cow Meets Copper 110
- 9. Bears? Fiddlesticks! 130
- 10. Scent of the River 152
- 11.'We Dance Our Dance Among Ourselves and in a Peaceful Manner, and It Is Ours' 168
- 12. Copper George 192
- 13. How You Feel When You Dance 210
- 14. Language, Names, and Site 224
- Epilogue 232
- Notes and Sources 234
- Bibliography 240
- Index 242
- A 242
- B 242
- C 242
- D 243
- E 244
- F 244
- G 244
- H 244
- I 245
- J 245
- K 245
- L 246
- M 246
- N 247
- O 247
- P 247
- Q 248
- R 248
- S 248
- T 248
- U 248
- V 248
- W 248
- X 249
- Y 249
