Raven's Cry
Book Details
Author(s)
Harris, Christie
Publisher
University of Washington Press
ISBN / ASIN
0295972211
ISBN-13
9780295972213
Availability
In Stock.
Sales Rank
#1,935,192
Category
Fiction
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
Description
Raven's Cry is a Northwest Coast classic -- a moving and powerful work that is a fictionalized retelling of the near destruction of the Haida nation.
The Haida are a proud and cultured people, whose home is Haida Gwaii (the Queen Charlotte Islands) off the coast of northern British Columbia. Until the first Europeans arrived in 1775, the Haida were the lords of the coast. The meeting of cultures was a fateful one: the Europeans had the advantages of firearms and immunity to their own deadly diseases. In just 150 years, the Haida and their culture were pushed to the edge of extinction.
Christie Harris recreates this tale of tragedy and the ultimate survival of native spirit with dignity, beauty and ethnographic accuracy.
