9 The Totem Pole Preservation Committee and the Case of the Gitanyow

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vi
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 3
6. The Cranmer Potlatch and Indian Agent Halliday’s Display 17
7. Totem Poles in Stanley Park 34
8. Northwest Coast Art as National Heritage: Two Federal Projects of the Late 1920s 46
9. The New Deals: George Raley and Depression-Era Reform in British Columbia 66
10. Alice Ravenhill and the BCIAWS 82
11. Mathias Joe, Mungo Martin, and George Clutesi: “Art” as Resistance 100
12. UBC, the BCPM, and the Totem Pole Carver Training Program 126
13. The Totem Pole Preservation Committee and the Case of the Gitanyow 143
14. Tales of Ghosts That Hover in the World Like Fading Smoke 170
15. First Nations Groups in British Columbia 181
16. Chronology of First Nations Art in British Columbia, 1921–61 183
17. Notes 191
18. Bibliography 223
19. Index 231