<p>This publication is a splendid presentation of an ancient northern story cycle, brought to life by Lela Kiana Oman, who has been retelling and writing the legends of the Inupiat of the Kobuk Valley, Alaska, nearly all her adult life. In the mid-1940s, she heard these tales from storytellers passing through the mining town of Candle, and translated them from Inupiaq into English. Now, after fifty years, they illuminate one of the world's most vibrant mythologies. The hero is Qayaq, and the cycle traces his wanderings by kayak and on foot along four rivers - the Selawik, the Kobuk, the Noatak and the Yukon - up along the Arctic Ocean to Barrow, over to Herschel Island in Canada, and south to a Tlingit Indian village. Along the way he battles with jealous fathers-in-law and other powerful adversaries; discovers cultural implements (the copper-headed spear and the birchbark canoe); transforms himself into animals, birds and fish, and meets animals who appear to be human.</p>

The Epic of Qayaq: The Longest Story Ever Told by My People

Lela Kiana Oman

Arts & Photography

Carleton University Art Gallery

Speculative fictions: The photomontages of Graham Metson, 1955-95

Campbell, James D.

Robert Houle's Palisade

Unknown, Author

This profusely illustrated hardcover publication features over 100 works - each one reproduced in fill color - ranging from sculpture to drawings and prints, all of which are Sanattiaqsimajut or 'things that are finely made.' Two essays discussing the history of the collection are accompanied by thirty-three individual texts that take distinctive thematic, biographical and formal approaches. These essays are written by experts in the field including Patricia Feheley, Robert Kardosh, Christine Lalonde, Marybelle Mitchell, Judith Nasby, Crystal Parsons, Leslie Boyd Ryan, Pitaloosie Saila, Norman Vorano, Darlene Coward Wight and Norman Zepp.

Sanattiaqsimajut: Inuit Art from the Carleton University Art Gallery Collection

Sandra Dyck

Ingo Hessel

History & Criticism

Frank Shebageget: Light Industry

Meryl McMaster: Confluence

Heather Anderson

Gabrielle Moser

cheyanne turions

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