Judith P. Morgan

Paintings are a
reflection of a very
proud people called
the Gitksan.
Celebration Book by Judith P. Morgan
Paper back 8 x93/4 Price: $18.00 U.S. + shipping and Handling
Contains: Full color original artwork with historical information     

  • We celebrate our survival: through the years of suppression the scars left by loss of our lands as
    heralded by our totem poles.

  • Of our existence through diseases such as small pox, tuberculosis and near starvation.

  • Of total misunderstanding by the settlers as they occupied the choice stretches of land around our small
    “reserves.”

  • Of the oppressive “Indian Act” and the “crumbs from the table” as is doled out by the Department of Indian
    Affairs.

  • The Welfare put in place instead of seeing to it that jobs were put in place so that we could have an excuse
    not to pay taxes on our small “reserves.”

  • Our culture, our settlement feasts that tell us who originally owned the territories. Seeing our carvings and
    sacred blankets being put on display in beautiful buildings and not willing to return them to us.  Should n’t
    they wait till the total genocide is complete before displaying what once was?
  • Gitksan society was matriarchal.
  • Women held high positions :Chieftess  
    of a clan house.
  • Life of the Gitksan society on the
    Skeena River
  • Trappers and their Hunting in the
    Mountains
  • Old Gitwangak Village and its Totem
    poles
  • Honoring Chinese in the Canneries
Celebration Book
Photograph in Kitwanga by Camilla A Nail/Morgan  Fall of 2006