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Lax Kw'alaams dancers preparing to take part in a canoe launching ceremony in Port Simpson on the Northwest Coast. The Lax Kw'alaams Band is a member of the Tsimshian Tribal Council. In 2004, Lax Kw'alaams took the West Fraser Company to court to stop it from logging their territory.   Photo: Lax Kw'alaams Band

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Captain Jack. Pastel by W. Langdon Kihn
Location: Wellcome Library, London

  

Noch Slak. Pastel by W. Langdon Kihn
Location: Wellcome Library, London

The portraits of Captain Jack "Grizzly Bear Paw," medicine man of Kisbyyoks (left), and his wife, Noch Slak (above) were commissioned by Henry Wellcome in 1923. The artist, W. Langdon Kihn, also produced 24 paintings to illustrate the story published in 1937 by the National Geographic magazine: "When Red Men Ruled Our Forests."

  
     
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