Listening to Our Ancestors Land-Based Learning Almanac of the Dead is

Almanac of the Dead is fiction on the grand scale

part historical photograph archive

The book challenges contemporary assumptions that Aboriginal identity is framed in terms of cultural and national traits

and participation in treaty-making with the Crown

Jim Hollander

Listening to Our Ancestors Land-Based Learning Almanac of the Dead isListening to Our Ancestors: The Art of Native Life Along the North Pacific Coast is a co publication from the National Museum of the American Indian and the National Geographic Society. In text and colour plate the book explores the First Nations of the Pacific Northwest region. Eleven Nations are represented in this exhibition catalogue. Cultural workers and Elders from various cultural centres and local museums collaborated on this effort that takes