Return to the Land of the Head Hunters: Edward S. Curtis, the Kwakwaka'wakw, and the Making of Modern Cinema

Return to the Land of the Head Hunters: Edward S. Curtis, the Kwakwaka'wakw, and the Making of Modern CinemaThe first silent feature film with an "all Indian" cast and a surviving original orchestral score, Edward Curtis's 1914 In the Land of the Head Hunters was a landmark of early cinema. Influential but often neglected in historical accounts, this spectacular melodrama was an intercultural product of Curtis's encounter and collaboration with the Kwakwaka'wakw of British Columbia. In recognition of the film's centennial, and alongside the release of a

Yakuglas’ Legacy: The Art and Times of Charlie James makes a major contribution to the literature on Northwest Coast Art that will support undergraduate research as well as the historical research of carvers themselves

The inlay of this cribbage board is carved in the traditional panel pipe styling and is available in composite or pewter

quoting extensively from interviews done throughout British Columbia

and blank paper on the left

Haida Ben Houstie

while the village sleeps

Kwakwakawakw Nation

Contemporary First Nations artists of the Northwest Coast have long been among the most dynamic

Haida Doug LaFortune

that all treaties must be renegotiated on a "nation-to-nation" basis

A computer learns to feel sadness and grief from the history of atrocities committed against First Nations

The book will interest scholars of Native studies