First Nations of the Pacific Northwest: Change and Tradition

First Nations of the Pacific Northwest: Change and Tradition
Westfälisches Museum für Naturkunde, Münster, Germany, 2005, 184 pages.

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NEWS UPDATE:

Read about how this book came about, and view photos of the museum display in Germany here.

Read about how the 8-event book tour (June 10th-17th, 2009) went, with photos, as well as links to newspaper articles and radio interviews here.

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This book was published as the catalogue to accompany an exhibition on native culture of the Pacific Northwest, that was on display at the Westfalian Museum of Natural History in Muenster, Germany, in 2005 and 2006. It talks about traditional coastal indigenous cultures, with a specific focus on the effects that European contact and colonization had on these coastal peoples.

Jacqueline contributed photos to both the exhibition and the book, as well as a project called “Into the Light: Residential School Survivors Speak” – a series of interviews and accompanying portraits of 16 residential school survivors.  “Into the Light” is a unique work, undertaken before most Canadians had even heard of Indian Residential Schools and before formation of the Truth and Reconcilation Commission, where survivors speak in graphic detail about the abuse they experienced at the residential schools, how it has affected them as parents and grandparents, and how it has affected (and continues to affect) their communities and families.

This book was not available in Canada so Jacqueline worked to import several hundred copies of it and distribute it herself. Contact Jacqueline for more info.

First Nations of the Pacific Northwest: Change and Tradition
Westfälisches Museum für Naturkunde, Münster, Germany, 2005.
Hardcover, 184 pages with colour and archival photographs, $45.00
ISBN 3-924590-85-0