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The First Nations of the Pacific North West Coast are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Pacific Northwest Coast, their descendants, and many ethnic groups who identify with those historical peoples. They are now situated within the Canadian Province of British Columbia and the U.S. states of Alaska, Washington and Oregon. The indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast at one time had the most densely populated areas of indigenous people. The land and waters provided rich natural…

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It took many hours, many hands, hundreds of metres of thread, and thousands of buttons to make the World’s Biggest Button Blanket, now on display at the Legacy Art Gallery Downtown. “It takes seven people and four pulleys to hoist the blanket up,” says Caroline Riedel, the gallery’s curator of collections. “It weighs 300 pounds.” The project was led by the University of Victoria’s History in Art department faculty Carolyn Butler Palmer and Tahltan artist and instructor Peter Morin. Students…

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