Raven�s Cry is a Northwest Coast classic – a moving and powerful work that is a fictionalized retelling of the near destruction of the Haida nation.The Haida are a proud and cultured people, whose home is Haida Gwaii (the Queen Charlotte Islands) off the coast of northern British Columbia. Until the first Europeans arrived in 1775, the Haida were the lords of the coast. The meeting of cultures was a fateful one: the Europeans had the advantages of firearms and immunity to their own deadly diseases. In just 150 years, the Haida and their culture were pushed to the edge of extinction.Christie Harris recreates this tale of tragedy and the ultimate survival of native spirit with dignity, beauty and ethnographic accuracy.
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Christie Harris. Raven's Cry
RAVEN’S. CRY
FOREWORD
PREFACE
BEFORE YOU START THE STORY
ONE
TWO
THREE
FOUR
FIVE
SIX
SEVEN
EIGHT
NINE
TEN
GLOSSARY
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Christie Harris
Illustrations by Bill Reid
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His uncle was already singing. He was shaking his exquisitely carved bird rattle. Now he began to dance on the painted plank. And as he danced, sometimes he dipped his head, wafting a snow of feathers from his headdress, the symbol of peace and friendship.
Yatz steered straight towards the craft. He saw creatures move on it. Monster cormorants? He swallowed panic as he watched the peculiar beings scramble up and down the high, folded wings.
