The “Idiot Sticks”: Kwakwaka'wakw Carving and Cultural Resistance in Commercial Art Production on the Northwest Coast

Explores the subversive and satirical practice of creating souvenirs for settler-tourists arguing that the small totem poles carved as keepsakes were in fact a form of resistance to settler colonialism.
Author/Creator
Jack Davy
Open Access
Yes
Primary Source
No
Citation
American Indian Culture and Research Journal , vol. 42, no. 3, Native Narratives of Indigenous History and Culture, 2018, pp. 27-46
Publication Date
2018
First Nation, Metis, Inuit Locations
Resource Type
Articles -- Scholarly, peer reviewed
Format
Text -- PDF
Language
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