Proud Raven, Panting Wolf – Carving Alaska`s New Deal Totem Parks Moore

Proud Raven Panting Wolf\nby Emily L. Moore\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Emily L. Moore\nTitle: Proud Raven Panting Wolf\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Social and cultural history\nPublisher: University of Washington Press\nPublication year: 2020\nISBN-13: 9780295747552\nISBN-10: 0295747552\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nAmong 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 pa.