Skidegate House Models : From Haida Gwaii to the Chicago World's Fair and Beyond Top Seller overly positive understanding of their

overly positive understanding of their country’s history

Aboriginal Policy Research: Moving Forward

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Other contributors include: Paul Andrew

and published for the first time in Ojibwe

Skidegate House Models : From Haida Gwaii to the Chicago World's Fair and Beyond Top Seller overly positive understanding of theirAuthor Robin K. Wright's community engaged research offers valuable insights into Northwest Coast art history by exploring the Skidegate model village carved by Haida artists for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. In 1892 seventeen Haida artists were commissioned to carve a model of HlGaagilda Llnagaay (the village of Skidegate on Haida Gwaii, British Columbia) for the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago. The Skidegate model, featuring twenty nine large houses