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GOLDEN YEARS - Grandmothers & Grandfathers of the HAIDA

by Capt Gold of the Na7ikun Qiigawaay Clan [those born at house point]

272 pages; Spiral coil; catalogue #04-0673; ISBN 1-4120-2845-0; US$28.00, C$32.00, EUR23.00, £16.00

Capt Gold has grown up in a world that has seen constant contact with the Skidegate Village.

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About the Book

Come with me and look into my window of the past, and walk with me over my grandmother land, the Haida Gwaii (island of the people), when she was in her golden youth.

Greet all my people and be a part for a time as we walk through the glorious pages of my grandmothers (nunai's) and my grandfathers (chnai's) wonderful life.

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About the Author

I was born and raised in Haida Skidegate village and love the homeland of the ancient and present HAIDA with no plans to leave ever. I grew up in close constant contact with the magnificant and ancient HAIDA stories of various magnitudes. I always had the sense of one foot in the past and one foot in the future.

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Excerpts

Come with me and look into my window of the past, and walk with me over my grandmother land, the Haida Gwaii (islands of the people), when she was in her golden youth.

Greet all my people and be a part for a time as we walk through the glorious pages of my grandmothers (nunai's) and my grandfathers (chinai's) wonderful life.

The dancing sinuous, wavering, leaping and folding flames pull me out of myself, and I have the very real sensation of flight while still sitting in my place.

Events zip by in my mind so fast that I feel staggered and hard to concentrate and keep my feet on the ground in this reality. Dare I voice my fears aloud even to myself for fear of offending the spirits close to me now? I fight to remain here at this fire and try unsuccessfully to ignore the unreal mind feeling that threatens to pull me out of myself. I cannot!

Tentatively and apprehensively, I allow my mind to reach beyond my ground and beyond the skull of my head.

My spirit seems to fight to fly and my mind of today fights to keep me here and on the ground. This big self-conflict within my being is pushing me all over the place as I reluctantly begin to embrace this feeling of flying while sitting in one place. Oh-h, now I lose my initial fears and slowly pull my mind onto this astral-flight to, - Where? = Letting go, now!

Back and back, far into my ancestors' time, I travel to a golden age and back towards the first people, = to---....

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Catalogue Information

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