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North West Story Project


These are my research notes for this
culturally sensitive project with the goal
of creating a high quality animated film
or series that is true to the spirit of
North West Pacific Native American culture.

- Jason Carswell

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Title
Page
Treatment
 
Initial
Ideas
Personal
Interest
Potential
Funding
Potential
Resources
Art
Explainations
Cultural
Fundamentals
Oral
Literature
Environmental
Aspects
Geographic
Conditions
References
Sought
Links
 
Project
Definitions
Research
Notes
Bibliography
 
HMCS
Haida
Style
Guide

References Sought


Video

History Channel "HistoryLands: Nin Stints" (TV Guide Saturday, May 22, 1999) (seen March 30 2001 10:30-11am)
http://www.HistoryLands.com/sites/12-nan-sdins/
Discovery Channel "Forbidden Places" (April 2, 2001 5:00-5:30)

Bravo "Totem Talk"
-Northwest Pacific Coast Native CG animation & dance to contemporary music (with rap in part)
-definitely targeted toward children
-Annie Fraser B___ Film (partly produced by Bravo)


Books

Producers Workbook $100

Natonal Geographic - Vol. 172, No. 1, July 1987

Chief Lelooska "Echoes Of The Elders: The Stories Of Chief Lelooska" (with CD of 5 stories)
Christine Normandin -editor

Jessup Expedition Photographs: Drawing Shadows to Stone.
Text by Laurel Kendall, Barbara Mathé, and Thomas Miller.
The Jessup North Expedition from the turn of the century provided a detailed record of the American, Canadian, and Russian northwestern territories. The photographs collected in this anthology, carefully annotated, are a vibrant window into the lives of North America's indigenous peoples.
Washington D.C., 1997. 112pp., 92 black-and-white illustrations, 9x10-1/". Softbound . Bookseller Inventory # WA050S Price: US$22.50
Photo-Eye Books & Prints, Santa Fe, NM, U.S.A.
http://www.AbeBooks.com/

Hilary Stewart "Robert Davidson: Haida Printmaker"
University of Washington Press 1979 ISBN 0-295-95690-9
(Robert Davidson 1946- )
(Amazon out-of-print) (photocopied in 1991)

??? "Objects of Bright Pride: Northest Coast Indian Art From The American... "
(c)1978 The Center for Inter-American Relations & The American Federation of Arts
ISBN Can 0-88894-259-1 / ISBN USA 0-295-95664-X
(photocopied in 1991)

Shepker, H.J. "Forms of ecstasy in the Traditional Culture of the Haida Indians."
in "North American Indian Studies" (edited by P. Hovens), 99-108. Gottingen: Herodot 1981.

Indian Tales of the Northwest, 1976 Commcept Publishers

Haida BC Heritage Series, 1952 Provincial Archives

Jesup Expedition Vol.5 Pt.1 Ethnology Of The Haida 1905

Stories Of the Northwest Coast, Vancouver Public Aquarium Newsletter Vol. XIX, No.6 Nov-Dec 1975

Sound Heritage Vol.IV No.2, 1975 Provincial Archives of BC

We-Gyet Wanders On Storys Of The Northwest, 1977 Hancock House Publishers

The Tsimshian Indians And Their Art, 1899 Douglas + McIntyre Publishers


Amazon Info 2000 For Out Of Print Books

Peter L. Macnair "The Magic Leaves : a History of Haida Argillite Carving"

Donald N. Abbott "Report on Excavations Around Totem Pole Bases at Anthony Island"

George MacDonald "Ninstints : Haida World Heritage Site"

James Deans "Tales From the Totems of the Hidery"

Leslie Drew "Haida : Their Art and Culture"

D Adams "Haida Art (Queen Charlotte Island Reading Ser)"

Marilyn R. Knapp "Carved History : The Totem Poles & House Posts of Sitka National Historical Park"

A.M. Kosh "Alaskan Native Cultures: Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian"