Notes from the Netshed

Notes from the NetshedMrs. Amor de Cosmos has been entertaining British Columbia's commercial fishermen for over 15 years with her popular "A Letter From Home" columns. In 1981, her letters became a feature of the national tabloid newspaper Canadian Fishing Report, and in 1992, her columns began appearing each month in British Columbia's leading commercial fishing magazine, The Westcoast Fisherman. Her work has also been published in the anthology Working the Tides: A

Twelve writers from cultures profoundly based on salmon were asked to write about "the fish of the gods" from both a historical and a contemporary perspective

Through analytical essays and personal narratives

generations of students

Standing Up with G̲a’ax̱sta’las tells the remarkable story of Jane Constance Cook (1870-1951)

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including:

The family asks everyone who comes to remember everything they saw

working guide and reference book on the aboriginal art of the Pacific Northwest Coast

At first her parents worry

and it isn’t just her hair that sets her apart

sadness and wisdom

and its wider significance in the struggle for Indigenous cultural and political autonomy