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Raven's grandmother. The smaller she gets the more powerful she becomes.

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Capt. Kandy Franklin ⚓️🍬 @captkandy.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
More bubble netting.
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CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
what a beautiful day in sheet’ká
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Haida Princess (Lori) @haidaprincess.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
🔊ON & UP 😍👇🏾'Farewell to the #youth 🛶🛶canoers heading back to Lac Brochet, was such a breathtaking moment to be able to witness that, The #Dene 🥁🥁 #drummers were phenomenal. 🇨🇦 #Canada' (FB VID: Marilyn Harris. Jul 11, 2026) #Indigenous #FirstNations #NativeAmericans
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Haida Princess (Lori) @haidaprincess.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
🔊ON & UP 🪶👇🏾'stuartjamesmusic: My wife suggested I sing 2 our relative. I was intimidated, but it felt good. While I was singing, he gave me a little head bow. There’s different stories about 🦬 #bison, bowing their heads which was very intriguing 2 c. (IG: Jul 15, 2026) #NativeAmericans #Indigenous
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Northwest Treaty Tribes @nwtreatytribes.org · 16/07/2026
The Swinomish and Squaxin Island tribes are challenging a ruling from the federal government that makes it legal to kill and injure ESA-listed species by degrading and destroying habitat. www.kuow.org/environment/...
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Washington tribes sue to save endangered species habitats nationwide
The Swinomish Indian Tribal Community and the Squaxin Island Tribe are suing the Trump administration to save endangered-species habitats nationwide.
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KTOO Public Media @ktoopublicmedia.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
SHI estimates the new facility could cost up to $40 million to construct, but would bring in both revenue and jobs to downtown. It would match the nonprofit’s other neighboring facilities, including the Walter Soboleff Building, its Atnané Hít arts campus and Indigenous Science Building.
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Sealaska Heritage Institute shares plan to tear down Juneau’s City Hall, build new arts facility
The new facility would focus on cultural tourism programming. It would give visitors hands-on training in Northwest Coast arts.
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Haida Princess (Lori) @haidaprincess.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
🔊ON & UP 😍👇🏾' 🥁 Northern Cree, at the Siksika Nation Fair 2026 #Powwow 🇨🇦 #Canada. Foot Slide #Crow Hop' (FB VID: June 28, 2026) 🥁 #NorthernCree #CrowHop #Indigenous #FirstNations #NativeAmericans
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First American Art Magazine @firstamart.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Congratulations to Carrie Moran McCleary (Little Shell Chippewa) on receiving the 2026 Eiteljorg Indian Market and Festival Best of Show award for her piece “Reclaiming the Sisterhood of the Tuppie.” See the rest of the award recipients here: eiteljorg.org/2026-indian-...
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 23/05/2026
“I Use My Haida Eyes” — running May 14 to Oct. 12 at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC — showcases a genre-defying body of work by the late Haida artist Jut-ke-Nay Hazel Wilson. #TyeePresents #Sponsored thetyee.ca/Presents/202...
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‘History Robes’ Recount the Past Through a Haida Perspective | The Tyee
A new exhibit at the Museum of Anthropology showcases the pioneering work of Jut-ke-Nay Hazel Wilson.
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Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas @mnystudio.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Launching today! The LOST HAIDA MANGA, a compendium of graphic works spanning more than four decades (1981–2026). The publication gathers early and rarely seen stories alongside more recent published and unpublished works. Find it with Douglas & McIntyre here:
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The Lost Haida Manga : A Compendium
DescriptionFrom celebrated Haida artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas comes a striking new collection tracing the origins and evolution of Haida Manga—a bold visual genre that blends North Pacific…
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KTOO Public Media @ktoopublicmedia.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Sitka’s canoe is expected to arrive in Juneau on Tuesday morning along with canoes paddling from communities across the region. (From KCAW - Sitka)
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Sitkans send off ‘Ancestral Echoes’ canoe headed to Celebration
Sitka’s canoe is expected to arrive in Juneau on Tuesday morning along with canoes paddling from communities across the region.
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KTOO Public Media @ktoopublicmedia.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Yesterday on Juneau Afternoon, author Rachel Weaver discussed her new book, "The Last Run," and the Central Council of the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska previewed next week's Áak’w Kwáan Canoe Journey landing event. Juneau Afternoon airs at 3 p.m. on KTOO and KAUK with a rebroadcast at 7.
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"The Last Run" new novel from Rachel Weaver | Canoe Journey Landing at Auke Rec with Tlingit & Haida | UAS Outdoor Studies Salmon, Sport, and Society
Juneau Afternoon - Recorded live on Thursday, May 28, 2026 Juneau Afternoon featuring "The Last Run" by author Rachel Weaver, Tlingit & Haida and the
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Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 29/04/2026
More than 100 people gathered to see Petersburg’s first canoe in a century when the local tribe unveiled and blessed it after its first time on the water.
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Petersburg unveils kéet yaakw with traditional canoe blessing at Sandy Beach
Traditional canoes like this one typically belong to a single clan. But Petersburg’s local tribe decided to have this canoe designed to include everyone.
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Mousewoman @mousewoman.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
images.squarespace-cdn.com Woman who Married a Bear James Johnson from the website: Depicts the Tlingit story of a woman who ridiculed the bears, she married one, and had children who were bears. (2 bears in split profile). She learned to respect bears as her own. #JamesJohnsonNativeArt.com
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Woman who Married a Bear 

James Johnson

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Depicts the Tlingit story of a woman who ridiculed the bears, she married one, and had children who were bears.  (2 bears in split profile). She learned to respect bears as her own.
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First Peoples' Cultural Council @fpcc.ca · 15/04/2026
April 15th is #WorldArtDay! This day recognizes and promotes the development, enjoyment and appreciation of art worldwide. Here at FPCC, we support B.C. First Nations artists, musicians, creatives, painters, dancers, weavers and more. 🥁 👉🏾 Learn more about our Arts Program by visiting fpcc.ca/arts
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Saahlinda Naay (Haida Gwaii Museum) @haidagwaiimuseum.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Promo for: 
7IDANsuu James Hart - A Monumental Practice 
Book launch & celebration
4-7pm April 25, 2026
Haida Heritage Centre at Kay Llngagaay
Free Event | Everyone Welcome
- Haida songs, Q&A with James Hart, Gwaliga Hart & Audain Art Museum Director, Curtis Colins, book signing by James Hart, Refreshments

Hosted in friendship by Haida Gwaii Museum & Audain Art Museum, haawa thank you to our sponsors: Gwaii Trust Society, BC Arts Council, North Coast Regional District
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KTOO Public Media @ktoopublicmedia.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
The diving whale robe arrived earlier this week and will be brought out and danced at the Pink Martini Point House fundraiser in Sitka and Juneau this week.
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Repatriation and rematriation come together in two new Chilkat robes for Sitka clan
Two Chilkat robes — one very old, one not yet on the loom — will soon belong to a Lingít clan as they work to rebuild their clan house in Sitka.
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Indigenous Journalists Association @indigenousja.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Meet Santana Dreaver, IJA and The Narwhal’s 2026 Indigenous Journalism Fellow—centering Indigenous youth, land, sovereignty and climate stories across B.C. Read more: tinyurl.com/5z7jv7x5 #IndigenousJournalism #TheNarwhal #ClimateReporting
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UBC Press @ubcpress.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Shortlisted for the Canadian Historical Association’s Best Scholarly Book in Canada History Prize, “A Cold Colonialism” by @tinaadcock.bsky.social offers the first extended examination of twentieth-century exploration in the Canadian North. bit.ly/4mlCLPB
Cover: A Cold Colonialism: Modern Exploration and the Canadian North, by Tina Adcock. Photo: a lone, early twentieth-century vehicle is driven on a snow-packed road in an Arctic landscape. In the background, a range of snow-covered mountains. Beside the cover, text reads New in Paperback.
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Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Folded some zines of my book “Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II” for the Alaska Native book fair next week! 📚 🐛 🗃️
Hand holding a zine with the cover of the book Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II, Southwest rug in background with around a dozen or so paper zines in background
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Alaskan Lisa @alaskanlisa.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Fresh coat of snow on Sleeping Lady. Clouds making the mountain look taller. So beautiful to see the last breaths of winter.
Sleeping Lady in background of Anchorage midtown
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Northwest Treaty Tribes @nwtreatytribes.org · 30/03/2026
We can’t allow politics or greed to undermine our work to protect the forested areas that make our state a special place to live. nwtreatytribes.org/being-frank-...
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Being Frank: Forest protections essential for healthy ecosystem - Northwest Treaty Tribes
Being Frank is a column by Chairman Ed Johnstone of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission. As a statement from the…
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
PORCUPINE LOOK AT HIM LIVIN HIS BEST LIFE
A brown clump that looks like a shabby hairpiece hanging out on the branches of a spruce tree
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OPB @opb.org · 22/03/2026
The skeins are mostly sheep’s wool. Some have been spun with plant fibers, and dyed with Oregon grape, elderberry, or marigold.
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Coast Salish wool weaving, once nearly lost, enjoys a renaissance
An exhibition at Seattle’s Burke Museum showcases both ancestral and contemporary works, thanks in part to a local instructor who's helping its revival and teaching the next generation of weavers.
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Mousewoman @mousewoman.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
red cedar
western red cedar and trial into the forest
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(numunu, quahadis band) - Sky Kwihnai Pihi (name) @anarcho.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
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Pain at the pump
As the conflict between Iran and the United States and Israel continues into its third week, oil prices have increased dramatically across the board, translating to spikes at the pump not seen since R...
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Aaron Brakel @junolocal.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Shgoona héen.aḵu. Lawson Creek bar #AlaskaSky
A winter beach, sand and rocks with some ice in the foreground. Water in the mid ground. An island with trees and snowy mountains in the background with sun on the mountaintops under a partly cloudy sky. Tones of winter blue
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Northwest Treaty Tribes @nwtreatytribes.org · 14/03/2026
"I was afraid, but I was more afraid of being a coward.” Author and Puyallup Tribe of Indians elder and leader Ramona Bennett Bill recalls a life spent fighting for treaty rights. www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-m...
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A Puyallup elder recounts the fight for Native rights
Through interviews and a memoir, Puyallup activist Ramona Bennett Bill recalls a lifetime in pursuit of Indigenous rights and how future generations guided her efforts. | Essay
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E hele me ka pu‘olo @pnwgeographies.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295... Good book to read in stormy weather.

Unsettled Ground
The Whitman Massacre and Its Shifting Legacy in the American West

By Cassandra Tate

    PUBLISHED: October 2025
    SUBJECT LISTING: Pacific Northwest / History, Native American and Indigenous Studies, History / US History
    BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION: 304 Pages, 5.5 x 8.5 in, 13 b&w illus., 2 maps
    ISBN: 9780295754512
    Publisher: University of Washington Press

FORMAT: Paperback

$19.95

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"By turns moving, evenhanded and lyrical in its evocation of time and place."—Seattle Times

In this rigorously researched and incisively written account, historian and journalist Cassandra Tate challenges generations of received wisdom about the 1847 killing of Marcus and Narcissa Whitman and eleven others at their Presbyterian mission on Cayuse land near present-day Walla Walla.

Far from a simple story of martyrdom and savagery, the Whitman incident emerges here as a cultural collision steeped in misunderstanding, religious idealism, and colonial arrogance. Tate deftly navigates the evolving narratives that have surrounded the event—from nineteenth-century sanctification to twentieth-century critique—revealing how shifting social values have shaped public memory. With nuance and clarity, she illuminates voices long suppressed, particularly those of the Cayuse, whose perspectives refract the complexities of resistance, sovereignty, and survival.

Tate’s portrait of the Whitmans is neither hagiography nor vilification. Instead, it captures them as earnest but flawed agents of Manifest Destiny, shaped as much by their cultural assumptions as by their religious convictions. Through fresh archival research and a deep sensitivity to context, Unsettled Ground unpacks the politics of commemoration and historical narrative, offering a compelling, unvarnished retelling that is as relevant as it is revelatory. This is essential reading for anyone interested in the contested ground of Western history.
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Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 09/03/2026
The plan will set the agency’s priorities for the forest over the next decade or so.
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Forest Service schedules in-person meetings across Southeast on Tongass plan revision
The agency plans to hold meetings in 18 Southeast communities to collect public input from late March through early May.
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Northwest Treaty Tribes @nwtreatytribes.org · 09/03/2026
Today is Billy Frank Jr. Day in honor of the longtime NWIFC chairman. Celebrate by watching this video that takes you upriver through the eyes of the salmon. youtu.be/D15itTjuY-g
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sčədadxʷ (salmon)
sčədadxʷ (salmon) is an animated short featuring Billy Frank Jr. that takes the viewer up the river through the eyes of the salmon showing its pristine environment; its connection to the Pacific Northwest People; the arrival of the settlers; habitat degradation; the unification of people throughout the world working together to save salmon and salmon habitat. sčədadxʷ was produced by Injunuity, a Native Owned Production Company in Oakland California. Injunuity is a collage of reflections on the Native American world, our shared past, our turbulent present, and our undiscovered future. To view more of their work http://injunuity.org Our Sponsors Nisqually Indian Tribe + Tulalip Tribes + Squaxin Island Tribe + Suquamish Tribe + Shoalwater Bay Tribe “When the salmon are healthy we are healthy,” Billy Frank Jr.
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Mousewoman @mousewoman.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
howling for wolves above Moira Sound - Alaska
Photo. In the far distance is Haida Gwaii. Mountains in the distance surrounding Moira Sound. Forested islands scattered over blue water. Wildlife biologist howling for wolves.
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West Coast Environmental Law @wcelaw.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
HIRING: We're looking for a full-time staff lawyer to join our Access to Justice team – someone who is passionate about using their legal skills in service of #EnvironmentalJustice. Learn more about the role and apply by March 22: www.wcel.org/job-posting/...
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Northwest Treaty Tribes @nwtreatytribes.org · 03/03/2026
Salish Current: State of Our Watersheds Report tells the story of the history, present and future of local salmon conservation. salish-current.org/2026/03/02/r...
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Report shows need for greater funding, enforcement to save salmon
The comprehensive watershed-by-watershed analysis of habitat conditions by the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission tells the story of the history, present and future of local salmon conservation.
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Haida Princess (Lori) @haidaprincess.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
🔊ON & UP 😍👇🏾'My Cuzzie, Reg Davidson, #Haida #Artist putting finishing touches on #Totem Pole to be raised in Alaska soon. (FB VID: Reg Davidson. Feb 27, 2026) #Art #TotemPole #Indigenous #FirstNations #NativeAmericans
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Saahlinda Naay (Haida Gwaii Museum) @haidagwaiimuseum.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Happenings for Mar-April at Haida Gwaii Museum & Haida Heritage Centre!
Haida Heritage Centre & Haida Gwaii Museum at Kay Llnagaay:

All Islands' Art Show May 1- June 26, 2026: Call for (local) Artists - Art drop off April 17th & 18th at Haida Gwaii Museum Ocean Gallery; Entry fee $15; scan QR code for entry form; Hosted by Haida Gwaii Arts Council and Haida Gwaii Museum.

Sk'aadawung Nora-Jane Edenshaw: Strong mind. Young hands. Emerging Voice (young weaver exhibition): March 7-April 4; Free exhibition held in Haida Heritage Centre Welcome House; Hosted by Haida Gwaii Museum.

7IDANSUU JAMES HART 'A Monumental Practice' book signing & Celebration; 4-7pm April 25, 2026 at Haida Heritage Centre; Free event; Hosted by Haida Gwaii Museum and Audain Art Museum.

The Weaving of aay aay Closing Ceremonies 2-5pm March 28 Haida Heritage Centre; featuring the weaving of aay aay film short screening and book launch, and a weaving talk by Kuujuuhl Evelyn Vanderhoop; Free event; Hosted by Haida Gwaii Museum.

Support local Artists, Writers and Makers: Gina DaahlGahl Naay The Trading House: Shop in house Tues-Sat 10am-5pm (closed stat holidays); Shop online 24/7: www.haidagwaiimuseumgiftshop.ca.

Cultural Tours + Programs: pricing and booking online at: haidaheritagecentre.com

Spring Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 10am-5pm (closed stat holidays)
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Mousewoman @mousewoman.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
from the story about the Sapsucker who had no feathers.
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Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Amazing news about Alaska Native language revitalization and integration in Alaska pedagogy 🙌
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Mousewoman @mousewoman.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
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FOR THOSE SCHOLARS conducting research within First Nations communities at this postcolonial moment in academic history, old rules do not apply. One must navigate a rearranged landscape made up of new challenges and opportunities. First Nations have both the desire and the ability to restrict researchers’ access: they may actively seek to shape both the methods by which research is to be conducted and the manner and degree to which their intellectual property will be manifested in published form. Moreover, many First Nations seek a greater and co-equal role in the academic enterprise, with Aboriginal cultural specialists shaping research goals and questions; unprecedented collaborative research opportunities emerge that, when all runs smoothly, unite indigenous cultural specialists with outside researchers in the production of new and more culturally nuanced genres of academic discourse. Outside researchers must devote unprecedented attention to developing relationships of mutual trust within the communities they study. Research “for research’s sake” is seldom admissible, and one must demonstrate convincingly, to an audience jaded by decades of perceived academic misrepresentation, that one’s work will lead, for example, to the settlement of land or resource claims, the improvement of community health, or the preservation and perpetuation of cultural knowledge in the face of considerable pressures to the contrary.
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Mousewoman @mousewoman.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Being in Being contains three masterpieces by legendary Haida mythteller Skaay of the Qquuna Qiighawaay. The shortest recounts the high points of the legend of his family. The second, Raven Travelling, is the longest and most complex version of the story of the Raven ever recorded on the Northwest Coast. The third is The Qquuna Cycle, a narrative poem of nearly 5,500 lines, one of the true masterpieces of North American literature.

Robert Bringhurst’s eloquent and vivid translations of these works are supplemented by explanatory notes that supply the needed background information.
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Mousewoman @mousewoman.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
from: Raven Travelling Being in Being: The Collected Works of a Master Haida Mythteller, Skaay of the Qquuna Qiighawaay, translated from the Haida by Robert Bringhurst.
Being in Being contains three masterpieces by legendary Haida mythteller Skaay of the Qquuna Qiighawaay. The shortest recounts the high points of the legend of his family. The second, Raven Travelling, is the longest and most complex version of the story of the Raven ever recorded on the Northwest Coast. The third is The Qquuna Cycle, a narrative poem of nearly 5,500 lines, one of the true masterpieces of North American literature.
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Mousewoman @mousewoman.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Flicker feather - formline
flicker feather as formline
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Mousewoman @mousewoman.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I've just read this book and it is one of the great contributions to Pacific Northwest scholarship and story telling. Just awesome. Can't wait for Vol. 2.
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University of Washington Press @uwapress.uw.edu · 23/02/2026
Decades in the making, YÉIL KUNDAYAAYÍ, ADVENTURES OF RAVEN is a monumental volume of Tlingit Raven stories—the first to present them in the original language with facing English translations. Read our Q&A with copublishers Sealaska Heritage Institute @shinstitute.bsky.social to learn more:
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Tlingit Raven Stories: A Conversation with Sealaska Heritage Institute
Yéil Kundayaayí, Adventures of Raven, edited by Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Richard Dauenhauer, Will Geiger, and Jeff Lee, brings together fifty stories that reveal Raven’s wit and world-shaping power…
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Mousewoman @mousewoman.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I've just read this book and it is one of the great contributions to Pacific Northwest scholarship and story telling. Just awesome. Can't wait for Vol. 2.
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Mousewoman @mousewoman.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
In the Fall of 1900, a young American anthropologist named John Swanton arrived in the Haida country, on the Northwest Coast of North America, intending to learn everything he could about Haida mythology. He spent the next ten months phonetically transcribing several thousand pages of myths, stories, histories and songs in the Haida language. Swanton met a number of fine mythtellers during his year in the Haida country. Each had his own style and his own repertoire. Two of them—a blind man in his fifties by the name of Ghandl, and a septuagenarian named Skaay—were artists of extraordinary stature, revered in their own communities and admired ever since by the few specialists aware of their great legacy.

Nine Visits to the Mythworld includes all the finest works of one of these master mythtellers. In November 1900, when Ghandl dictated these nine stories, the Haida world lay in near ruins. Wave upon wave of smallpox and other diseases, rapacious commercial exploitation by fur traders, whalers and miners, and relentless missionization by the church had taken a huge toll on Haida culture. Yet in the blind poet’s mind, the great tradition lived, and in his voice it comes alive. Robert Bringhurst’s eloquent and vivid translations of these works are supplemented by explanatory notes that supply the needed background information.
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Mousewoman @mousewoman.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
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Chinookan Peoples of the Lower Columbia
Chinookan peoples have lived on the Lower Columbia River for millennia. Today they are one of the most significant Native groups in the Pacific Northwest, al...
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Hakai Institute @hakai.org · 11/12/2025
New research led by Dalhousie, with help from Hakai, reveals that killer whales and Pacific white-sided dolphins may be cooperatively foraging off northern Vancouver Island. Using drones and underwater tags, researchers captured whales following dolphins on deep dives. Paper: tinyurl.com/yu3r4b3c
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Mousewoman @mousewoman.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
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Ron Scollon was an eminent linguist who worked for much of his life on Athapaskan languages and the ethnography of speaking. This Is What They Say was his final project; sadly, he died in 2010. He wished to honour a master Aboriginal storyteller – François Mandeville – and the master linguist who collaborated with him at Fort Chipewyan on Lake Athabasca in 1928 – Li Fang-kuei. Li was also Scollon’s own teacher: the two collaborated in the production of an earlier version of these stories (Li and Scollon, Chipewyan Texts [Taipei: Academia Sinica, 1976]). Scollon traces the genealogy of the resulting intellectual tradition. He explains exactly how Mandeville and Li worked together and what each hoped to learn, then how Li and Scollon worked together four decades later, and finally how Scollon brought his own formidable scholarship to a new translation of these stories and his analysis of how they should be presented for readability in English and faithfulness to the original Chipewyan. (I am the fourth link in this chain at Fort Chipewyan; when I arrived in 1977 to conduct research for my PhD dissertation, Ron generously allowed me to read a major manuscript he had prepared.) The book is a fascinating reflective piece about fieldwork, tutelage, serendipity, and continuity of multiple traditions – linguistic, anthropological, and cultural – as well as an insightful presentation of a subset of Chipewyan oral traditions.
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