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revealing it to be a highly social and at times even spiritual activity ripe with hidden layers of meaning that are often surprising to the outside observer

camping in a tipi

Five hundred years of colonization have taken an incalculable toll on the Indigenous peoples of the Americas: substance use disorders and shockingly high rates of depression

From a childhood in an Indian residential school to championing aboriginal rights before the World Court

and its support of assimilationist education

The Codfish Dream: Chronicles of a West Coast Fishing Guide ampersand revealing it to be aA colourful portrait of life in a fishing village on the BC coast. After spending fifteen years as a fishing guide on the BC coast, David Giblin decided that the offbeat people and places hed encountered during that colourful period in his life had to be preserved. Like any good fishing story, wherein the fish seem to grow faster after they are dead, the forty seven interconnected narratives in what eventually became The Codfish Dream took on a life