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Proud Raven, Panting Wolf - Carving Alaska's New Deal Totem Parks (Hardcover)
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Proud Raven, Panting Wolf - Carving Alaska's New Deal Totem Parks (Hardcover)
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Among Southeast Alaska’s best-known tourist attractions are its
totem parks, showcases for monumental wood sculptures by Tlingit
and Haida artists. Although the art form is centuries old, the
parks date back only to the waning years of the Great Depression,
when the US government reversed its policy of suppressing Native
practices and began to pay Tlingit and Haida communities to restore
older totem poles and move them from ancestral villages into parks
designed for tourists. Dramatically altering the patronage and
display of historic Tlingit and Haida crests, this New Deal
restoration project had two key aims: to provide economic aid to
Native people during the Depression and to recast their traditional
art as part of America’s heritage. Less evident is why Haida and
Tlingit people agreed to lend their crest monuments to tourist
attractions at a time when they were battling the US Forest Service
for control of their traditional lands and resources. Drawing on
interviews and government records, as well as on the histories
represented by the totem poles themselves, Emily Moore shows how
Tlingit and Haida leaders were able to channel the New Deal
promotion of Native art as national art into an assertion of their
cultural and political rights. Just as they had for centuries, the
poles affirmed the ancestral ties of Haida and Tlingit lineages to
their lands. Supported by the Jill and Joseph McKinstry Book Fund
Art History Publication Initiative. For more information, visit
http://arthistorypi.org/books/proud-raven-panting-wolf
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