Indians of the Northwest

Pat Galloway, formerly the resource librarian at the Toronto & District
Parent Co-operative Preschool Corporation, is currently with the
Scarborough Public Library.

Indians of the Northwest offers a multidisciplinary approach to the
study of the fishing and totem-building peoples of British Columbia and
Alaska. Its lively, imaginative, and informative text includes Native
legends, diary excerpts from early Pacific Coast explorers, and other
research on tribal life and culture. From fishing to potlatches, each
topic is accompanied by a selection of related activities (such as map
making), or thought-provoking questions that prompt comparisons of
contemporary society with Native culture. Wonderful late–19th-century
photographs highlight important aspects of the text and capture a people
in transition.

Although the considerable educational merit of this book is,
unfortunately, undermined by an appalling number of proofreading and
grammatical errors (quite unforgivable in a book clearly intended for
use in a classroom), Indians of the Northwest is, nonetheless,
recommended.