{"product_id":"proud-raven-panting-wolf-carving-alaskas-new-deal-totem-parks-9780295743936","title":"Proud Raven, Panting Wolf: Carving Alaska's New Deal Totem Parks","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmong 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDramatically 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSupported by the Jill and Joseph McKinstry Book Fund\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArt History Publication Initiative. For more information, visit http: \/\/arthistorypi.org\/books\/proud-raven-panting-wolf\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Washington Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/20\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780295743936\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.10h x 7.30w x 1.10d","brand":"Emily L. Moore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52161286963381,"sku":"9780295743936","price":33.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_9b8186fc-0c90-42cc-a76e-ee9286f61b6a.jpg?v=1768317647","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/proud-raven-panting-wolf-carving-alaskas-new-deal-totem-parks-9780295743936","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}