Call of the Raven

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By trickery, Raven stole the sun, moon and stars from a chief who kept them in three boxes and put them into sky where they have been ever since, giving light to the world.

_{According to a Haida myth}

_{British Columbia}

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Early morning cruise

_{Johnstone Strait / Vancouver Island / British Columbia}

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Nuu-cha-nulth Trail

_{Vancouver Island / British Columbia}

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Mystic Totem 01

_{Rainforest / Vancouver Island / British Columbia}

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Mystic Totem 02

_{Rainforest / Vancouver Island / British Collumbia}

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Gitanyow

_{Cassiar Highway / British Columbia}

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Remote carver's shack

_{Bella Coola / British Columbia}

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Old cedar tree

_{West Coast Trail / British Columbia}

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Sechart

_{Pinkerton Islands / Vancouver Island / British Columbia}

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Nuu-chah-nulth Trail

_{Vancouver Island / British Columbia}

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Quadra Island

_{British Columbia}

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Wild Pacific Trail

_{Ucluelet / Vancouver Island / British Columbia}

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Tongass National Forest

_Alaska

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Broken Islands

_{Vancouver Island / British Columbia}

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Kiixin trail

_{Bamfield / Vancouver Island / British Columbia}

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Alert Bay

_{Cormorant Island / British Columbia}

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Mystic Totem 03

_{Vancouver / British Columbia}

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Tricksters

_{Icefield Highway / Alberta}

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A teepee and a good mother have a lot in common. We rally round and we find shelter from the burning sun or the cold, from rain and storm.

_{Kootenay Plains / Alberta}

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New Hazelton

_{British Columbia}

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Kiixin site with totems

_{Bamfield / Vancouver Island / British Columbia}

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“Canadians have a historical gravitation toward loons because our national expansion was along waterways, by canoe. We identify with the mystic call of the loon. The cry of the loon is a symbol of the Canadian wilderness. The less we hear it, the more it tells us about the declining state of our mutual home.”

_{According to a paddler in the outback of Ontario}

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Cormorant Island

_{British Columbia}

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Like northern people round the entire Arctic Ocean, these Athapaskan children must live in two worlds. Together with their fathers they follow the trap lines out in the bush, but modern man's lust for energy and other resources is never far behind.

_{Peel River ferry / Northwest Territories}

_{Canadian Geographic}

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Kiixin village site

_{Bamfield / Vancouver Island / British Columbia}

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On Huu-ay-aht land

_{Bamfield / British Columbia}

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In the lodge where no one lives.

The spirit of what had been roamed with the whispering wind.

To the east there are shadows still, but they fade.

The shapes of our painted dreams are already walking, strong among the houses of our grandchildren's children

_Stoney

_{Kiixin village site / Bamfield / British Columbia}

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New Aiyansh

_{Nass River Valley / British Columbia}

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“….My son's oldest son graduated from high school but could not find no work. Neither could he hunt and fish. So Ahkinga took his younger grandson Taukijaa out of school and began to teach him the traditional ways of survival….”

_{Ahkinga's father / Peel River / Northwest Territories}