During My Time: Florence Edenshaw Davidson, a Haida Woman

by Margaret B. Blackman

Book Overview

This book is the first life history of a Northwest Coast Indian woman. Florence Davidson, daughter of noted Haida carver and chief Charles Edenshaw, was born in 1896. As one of the few living Haida elders knowledgeable bout the culture of a bygone era, she was a fragile link with the past. Living in Masset on the Queen Charlotte Islands, some fifty miles off the northwest coast of British Columbia, Florence Davidson grew up in an era of dramatic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295971797
• ISBN13: 9780295971797
• Release Date: June 1992
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

In my Time...

I found this book to be very interesting. Arranged Marriages, lots of children, lots ofpain. It seems like she worked 18 hours a day 7 days a week.I like when she painted the Haida boat. MeetingPierre Trudeau and the Queen of England.I would like to have lived in that era, except forthe health issues. I didnt know the earlier Indians were so superstitous!