Possessing Meares Island A Historian's Journey into the Past of Clayoquot Sound Hopi Marc-AdÚlard Tremblay

Marc-AdÚlard Tremblay

Written in Inuktitut (using both syllabics and transliterated roman orthography) and English the 24-page book tells readers about the girls and their family in simple poetry format along with colour drawings of key activities the girls enjoyed while growing up

Helen Knott

It uses Western Ojibwe and Manitoba dialects

She is also an adopted member of the Gitanyow (Gitksan) House of Luuxhon

Possessing Meares Island A Historian's Journey into the Past of Clayoquot Sound Hopi Marc-AdÚlard TremblayCentred on Meares Island, located near Tofino on Vancouver Islands west coast, Possessing Meares Island weaves a unique history out of the mists of time by connecting eighteenth century Indigenous colonial trade relations to more recent historical upheavals. Gough invites readers to enter a dramatic epoch of BCs coastal history and watch the Nuu chah nulth nations spearhead the maritime sea otter trade, led by powerful chiefs like Wickaninnish and