Possessing Meares Island A Historian's Journey into the Past of Clayoquot Sound U.S.A. History family and community healing that

family and community healing that traditional teachings are now restoring to Aboriginal Canada

With passionate logic and chillingly clear prose

Louise Erdrich creates a fictional world populated with memorable characters who are forced to grapple with the worst and best impulses of human nature

the author includes the use of Ojibway words and their meanings

Toward Liberation

Possessing Meares Island A Historian's Journey into the Past of Clayoquot Sound U.S.A. History family and community healing thatCentred on Meares Island, located near Tofino on Vancouver Islands west coast, Possessing Meares Island weaves a unique history out of the mists of time by connecting eighteenth century Indigenous colonial trade relations to more recent historical upheavals. Gough invites readers to enter a dramatic epoch of BCs coastal history and watch the Nuu chah nulth nations spearhead the maritime sea otter trade, led by powerful chiefs like Wickaninnish and