Our Chiefs and Elders: Words and Photographs of Native Leaders
By David Neel.
Description
This series of portraits of British Columbia Native chiefs and elders counters earlier depictions of "noble savages" or representatives of a "vanishing race". David Neel's photographs and conversations with his own people introduce us to a group of individuals who know who they are and whose comments on the present, coupled with their perspectives from the past, reveal a people who have a rich and unique heritage while fully realizing that they are living in the latter part of the twentieth century. Neel has chosen to show his subjects in paired images both in tradi...
ISBN(s)
0774804114, 9780774804110
